From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 00:02:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27ED106564A for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:02:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6260B8FC0C for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp208-191.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.208.191] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p3T02g9R095811 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:32:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:32:41 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <537A8F4F-A302-40F9-92DF-403388D99B4B@gsoft.com.au> To: Malcolm Waltz X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Spam-Score: -0.272 () BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable List Subject: Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:02:51 -0000 On 29/04/2011, at 2:16, Malcolm Waltz wrote: > I doubt the issues you are encountering have much to do with ZFS. >=20 > It sounds like you are using TimeMachine over NFS. Obviously, Apple = does not support that configuration: > http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dtime+machine+nfs+site:apple.com >=20 > In my opinion, TimeMachine should only be used with block storage. If = you use any kind of file-sharing protocol (AFP, SMB/CIFS or NFS), = TimeMachine is implemented using a sparse disk image broken into = hundreds or thousands of separate files. This is a hack at best. >=20 > Time machine works very well with locally attached storage, but if you = need to use network storage, you might want to try iSCSI: > = http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/using-zfs-with-apple-time-machine.= html > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/iscsi/iscsi.txt Hmm, I _am_ using AFPD, not NFS for this.. I will see about using an = ISCSI disk image instead (although that would make it impossible to = resize once it's created right?) I see that the sparse disk image does use ~80000 files in a single = directory which does take.. a while.. to stat.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C