Filesystem plugin for ZFS

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Request for enhancement: 
plug-in for MacFusion to support 
ZFS

Original issue reported on code.google.com by grahampe...@gmail.com on 6 May 2007 at 11:35

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I second, will this be hard? ;-)

Original comment by vivacar...@gmail.com on 9 May 2007 at 9:46

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I can't comment on ease/difficulty (I have no hand in code) but the prospect of 
ZFS is extraordinarily appealing to 
me. 

Veering slightly off-topic ... a few days ago, Windows 2000 did something 
unimaginably horrible by deleting — 
without warning (by Microsoft's design) — a Guest's profile in its entirety. 
Windows over-wrote — made 
unrecoverable — valuable irreplaceable data that was not backed up; the 
Guest's documents had been 
successfully saved mere moments before Windows marked that disk space as free 
</end rant> 

— it's operating system nightmares like that that make me yearn for a filing 
system such as ZFS!

Original comment by grahampe...@gmail.com on 12 May 2007 at 11:25

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if ZFS will be (as it seems) the default or one of the choice FS for Leopard, 
it has
any meaning to develop a plugin for MacFuse, as ZFS will be natively supported?

Original comment by danielem...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2007 at 11:56

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For users of Mac OS X 10.4: a ZFS plug-in to MacFusion will be useful. 

For users of Mac OS X 10.5: even if users have the option of 
_conversion_ from HFS+ to ZFS <http://storagemojo.com/?p=475> some people may 
have a short- or long-
term preference for HFS+. Example: 

* user has just one disk, the startup disk, with just one HFS+ partition

* user wishes to benefit from ZFS snapshot and rollback 
  for some but not all of their data 
  without partitioning the startup disk

* user benefits from ZFS plug-in to MacFusion. 

This assumes that a ZFS plug-in may use a path (as EncFS.plugin uses a path) 
— not an entire volume or disk 
— for storage.

Feasibility etc. should be clearer after WWDC announcements. 

Original comment by grahampe...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2007 at 1:28

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It would seem (in the absence of knowing anything about any of this) that 
starting
from the Linux ZFS plugin to FUSE would be a reasonable place to begin ...

hmmm... I seem to be not connecting to the home site for that, so maybe not, it 
may
be deceased.

Original comment by david.le...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2007 at 8:24