#Openzfs on mac update#
#Openzfs on mac mac#
#Openzfs on mac windows#

You can not run M1 in VMs (recent change, you can but can't load kexts), you can not run variant kernels (development/debug), you can not lldb work (beyond printing the logs, show stack). M1/arm64 has caused some issues, new platform of course, but mostly due to the lack of development support. You can run 2.1.99 if you want to be at the edge. pkg installers, so latest there should be 2.1.0. The Intel version is doing rather well, and generally we just sync with upstream. I might be able to shed some light on it.

#Openzfs on mac windows#

In contrast the Windows build is much worse and cannot be trusted with data.Ĭurrent ZFS 1.9.4 features that can be enabled with 0.8.6 (and later)

I was really happy about OpenZFS being available on MacOS when I needed it, it was a life saver. As long as you have the data backed up somewhere safe, I would not be too concerned.

#Openzfs on mac update#

Then perhaps don't update feature flags on the pool anymore to ensure it stays compatible. I'd set up the pool on a linux distribution with a current openzfs version and see if it can be imported on MacOS.

No idea if it still works at all due to requiring a kext and Monterey not being particularly custom kext friendly.

#Openzfs on mac mac#

On my current M1 Mac with Monterey I have not tried it and I am unsure if it's even compatible at all with Apple Silicon yet. It specifically used OpenZFS because I needed to do TM backups on two slightly broken drives, and ZFS was able to handle the constant resilvers, scrubs, errors, and bringing a dropped out drive back online with no crashes, kernel panics or anything. I have last used it with Catalina on an Intel Mac and it worked perfectly well - I needed features beyond what APFS can do, and the simple mirror I set up worked well. Half the point of asking questions in a public sub is so that everyone can benefit from the answers-which is impossible if you go deleting everything behind yourself once you've gotten yours. If I catch anybody else deleting their question and all their comments on it immediately after getting an answer, they're getting an instant banhammer. But please don't flame people for not using your own personal One True Platform. If there's useful information about a difference in implementation or performance between OpenZFS on FreeBSD and/or Linux and/or Illumos - or even Oracle ZFS! - great. If your post or comment gets hidden, send modmail and we'll take a look. NOTE: sometimes Reddit's auto-spam system flags links it shouldn't. This isn't an issue we usually have trouble with, so let's just keep not having trouble with it. BUT, only if it's materially useful to answer a question, or offer information, in some sense other than 'this will get people to give me money.' It's fine to link to youtube videos, blog posts, what have you. If you think somebody's wrong, you can say that without casting aspersions or being super sarcastic.