OpenZFS with el Capitan Server?

I intend to set up a new Mac Mini with a bolt of lightning 4 external bays in the cabinet. My idea is to use OpenZFS on OSX to this storage box. Anyone with experiences to share? The Mac will serve as an internal file server and a server TimeMachine.

Thanks for any ideas

-markus-

Apple is headed in a different direction of ZFS with SATF support announced with macOS Sierra.

What is your primary goal here?

If you are looking to run a server without dealing with integration and tests and everything that moves around your system file add-on, or with issues or incompatibilities that may arise on macOS or.app upgrades, then OpenZFS couldn't be the best path.

If experimentation and a custom configuration and more general experience with ZFS is your goal, I would like to (without intending any snark) suggest try ZFS with Linux or BSD or - since you are interested in ZFS - illumos here and not MacOS.   If not, maybe on a NAS network storage box dedicated.   These are all fine operating systems, and each has a base installed rather longer than people using ZFS that macOS does.  They also target these kinds of extensive customizations to the operating system level, too.

As for the General configuration, I regularly work with HFS + on large external networks with features of adolescence to most of the way to 50 terabytes, and - once the matrix material is configured and stabilized and RAID-6 is built, it simply works.  When SATF happens, I expect that will migrate through to the new file system, too.

With a server in general and a specific additional file system, you will have to deal with anything that might go on the side with the configuration.   Networking, DNS, mail, any setting you use.  A file system is a key part of any operating system configuration.  Adding OpenZFS just adds another piece to this effort.

If you really want OpenZFS on macOS, check with the people OpenZFS directly - see how many people use it, what kinds of questions and problems they might have, and others.  (It is probably somewhere better to learn more about OpenZFS here, FWIW.)  Of some of what is displayed in the general thread, it seems that some people have become targets of Time Machine works with data sets by user using OpenZFS, which is a reasonable way to configure it.

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