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HFS mimic and Finder Info windows

Open Fnuxus opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

The Finder Info window should reflect the actual status of a ZFS pool.

  1. Create a macOS friendly pool (case insensitive):

sudo zpool create -f -o ashift=12 -O compression=lz4 -O casesensitivity=insensitive -O atime=off -O normalization=formD tank mirror disk3 disk4

  1. Activate the HFS mimic feature on this ZFS pool:

sudo zfs set com.apple.mimic_hfs=on tank

  1. Select the pool in the Finder and hit Command-I to bring up the Info window.

Currently (O3X 1.9.3.1) the Info window describes the pool as Mac OS Extended (case sensitive).

I suggest the mimic feature should reflect the actual case sensitivity of the pool in the Info window. Things like that irritate new ZFS users and don’t exactly create trust.

Fnuxus avatar Apr 16 '20 17:04 Fnuxus

same issue on ZFS v1.9.4

captain-haddock17 avatar Apr 17 '20 12:04 captain-haddock17