I''ve been using ZFS on my home media server for about a year now. There''s a lot I like about Solaris, but the rest of the computers in my house are Macs. Now that the Mac has experimental read/write support for ZFS, I''d like to migrate my zpool to my Mac Pro. I primarily use the machine to serve my iTunes library and my Solaris samba shares never really played well with iTunes. The problem is that I upgraded to Solaris nv84 a while ago and bumped my zpool to version 9 (I think) at that time. The Macintosh guys only support up to version 8. There doesn''t seem to be too much activity on the ZFS project at macosforge.com so I''m guessing support for v9 isn''t right around the corner. I read the zpool man page and I know it says that there''s no way to downgrade, but I''m grasping at straws here. My next alternative is to try to run Solaris in VMWare on the Mac, but I''d rather not have to do that. Thanks for the help, Dave This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, David Loose <dloose at gmail.com> wrote:> The problem is that I upgraded to Solaris nv84 a while ago and bumped my zpool to version 9 (I think) at that time. The Macintosh guys only support up to version 8. There doesn''t seem to be too much activity on the ZFS project at macosforge.com so I''m guessing support for v9 isn''t right around the corner.I''m not sure if it would work, but did you try to do zfs send / zfs recv? If it''s just sending the filesystem data, you may be able to get around the zpool version problem. -B -- Brandon High bhigh at freaks.com "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche
On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:46 PM, David Loose wrote:> my Solaris samba shares never really played well with iTunes. > >Another approach might be to stick with Solaris on the server, and run netatalk <netatalk.sourceforge.net> instead of SAMBA (or, you know your macs can speak NFS ;>). -- Keith H. Bierman khbkhb at gmail.com | AIM kbiermank 5430 Nassau Circle East | Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 | 303-997-2749 <speaking for myself*> Copyright 2008
Keith Bierman wrote:> On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:46 PM, David Loose wrote: >> my Solaris samba shares never really played well with iTunes. >> >> > Another approach might be to stick with Solaris on the server, and > run netatalk <netatalk.sourceforge.net> instead of SAMBA (or, you > know your macs can speak NFS ;>).My iTunes and iPhoto libraries are served from Solaris to MacOS over NFS and it works just fine. Sadly NFSv3 only but that is a MacOS X issue. I also built mt-daapd on Solaris (just for fun) and iTunes can see that shared library - however this wasn''t much use to me as I still want to use iTunes to manage/populate the library. -- Darren J Moffat
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 20:21 -0600, Keith Bierman wrote:> On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:46 PM, David Loose wrote: > > my Solaris samba shares never really played well with iTunes. > > > > > Another approach might be to stick with Solaris on the server, and > run netatalk <netatalk.sourceforge.net> instead of SAMBA (or, you > know your macs can speak NFS ;>).Alternatively you could run Banshee or mt-daapd on the Solaris box and just rely on iTunes sharing. =P Seriously, NFS is a totally reasonable way to go. -Albert
> Another approach might be to stick with Solaris on the server, and > run netatalk instead of SAMBA (or, you > know your macs can speak NFS ;>).> I also built mt-daapd on Solaris (just for fun) and iTunes can see that > shared library - however this wasn''t much use to me as I still want to > use iTunes to manage/populate the library.> Alternatively you could run Banshee or mt-daapd on the Solaris box and > just rely on iTunes sharing. =P > > Seriously, NFS is a totally reasonable way to go.Thanks for the replies. These are all good solutions that I''ve considered in the past. Having 1 Mac to manage all of my media is my ideal solution. It lets me sync all of the iPods in the house at 1 point and alleviates the pain of having to merge music from several computers to one central library. That said, my ideal solution seems to be a no-go at this point, so it looks like I''ll have to settle on one of these suggestions anyway. This message posted from opensolaris.org