Advanced file/volume system supporting very large data stores.
OpenZFS on OS X is the open source port of OpenZFS on OS X.
OpenZFS was announced in September 2013 as the truly open source successor to the ZFS project. Our community brings together developers from the illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X platforms, and a wide range of companies that build products on top of OpenZFS. OpenZFS is an outstanding storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems, volume managers, and more, with consistent reliability, functionality and performance.
Note: While the included package installers require OS X 10.8 or later, compiling OpenZFS on OS X from source will ensure compatibility with OS X 10.6.
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(I've tested it on 10.9 and all seems ok)
Then "You have to realize that there are only 3 of us running this project, it costs you nothing to use the software, so we feel quite justified in dictating in what form we will attempt to deliver support."
So, I suppose it means that if you dive into ZFS, you have to be tech savvy enough to be sure that your issues are general issues... and not pollute the forums. ;-)
Good will is not enough, it seems.
Even if I understand the overflow they must face, that behavior put off my enthusiasm (to say the least...), especially because earlier this year I faced "real" issues that have been fixed thanks to the time I've spent trying fixes and communicating with the team — so I don't recognize myself in the portrait of "stupid user" thrown at me. ;-)
To conclude in a positive way, I must say that after ten months or so on ZFS, I had no issue at all regarding data security: mine were compatibility issues with specific softwares (indeed AVID ProTools and their interface drivers). Fixed.
Once it's all set up, you can just use ZFS partitions as any other (you can even manage them with Carbon Copy Cloner — not Superduper!).
Nevertheless, there are things to know before jumping in: it still doesn't support OSX permissions. I still have one issue, exclusively with ProTools wiping labels off its own sessions files (a really small issue, indeed, considering that all the other softwares I've tried aren't doing so).