ZFS Boot Drive

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This is a feature request.

I would like if there would be a way to (a.) have a MacZFS GUI (instead of the 
command line), and (b.) an option that would convert the current boot drive to 
ZFS on the fly without losing data (and it would still be bootable and stay the 
main drive).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2012 at 12:35

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(A) A GUI seems like a fine idea, actually.

(B) (1) HFS+ and ZFS are two very different filesystems on the disk, so you 
cannot merely relable the HFS+ one and make it magically have ZFS stuff. You 
would have to reformat. Your mileage may vary when it comes time to restoring 
your data.

(2) The current implementation of maczfs doesn't support many important 
features that are required to nicely work with Mac OS, such as Spotlight. Also, 
many applications do not work properly on a case-sensitive filesystem. I am 
sure you read the other issues.

(3) The mach_kernel cannot be read from a ZFS partition. If you know how to do 
EFI programming, you can probably fake it by putting zfs.efi on the EFI 
partition (`diskutil list`) and boot that way. Unlike the beta of Snow Leopard, 
which I hear had RO ZFS support, released Snow Leopard doesn't even have /that/.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2012 at 8:40

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Probably never going to happen; moving to 'low enhancement'.

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Mar 2012 at 11:24

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ZFS can be case-insensitive.  That's not an issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Mar 2012 at 2:27

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