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Cannot access some datasets with Finder

Open sam81 opened this issue 4 years ago • 19 comments

I'm experiencing an issue which seems similar to the one described in #112. I have a pool with several datasets, I can access all of them through the terminal without issues, but in Finder weird issues occur for some datasets. For example one of the datasets is called "work", and has a subfolder called "auditory". When I open the datasets sometimes I get a disk icon with "work", and sometimes I get a folder icon with "auditory", but even in the latter case I can't access the folders inside the "auditory" folder. When I click on it I get again an icon with "auditory", and clicking a few times I get back to the "work" icon with the disk folder. There's some kind of weird recursion going on. This is what I get when I expand the contents in the details view: work The datasets that are working and those that are not working have exactly the same zfs properties. I tried setting com.apple.devdisk=on, a workaround mentioned for issue #112, for the problematic datasets but that didn't change the issue.

This is occurring with OpenZFS on OSX v1.9.2 on MacOS High Sierra.

On issue #112 it is mentioned that Finder gets confused when several datasets exist with the same final name component. That may be the case here, the datasets in the pool where the issue is occurring have many subdirectories, and it may be the case that some directory paths end with the same name, they're large datasets, so it's not possible to check this manually.

The other OSX specific ZFS properties are set as follows:

com.apple.browse on default com.apple.ignoreowner off default com.apple.mimic_hfs off default

sam81 avatar Sep 05 '19 19:09 sam81