Importing HFS+ disk

[coolnodje]

Hi,

any chance of having Import Disk to support HFS+? In Freenas 10?
From older post I gather it was supported in the past.

I'd rather avoid copying TBs of data aver the network :)

Thanks

 

[dlavigne]

That older post must have been from the .7 days (now NAS4Free) as HFS support was never in the 8/9 versions.

 

[Montel Bahn]

any chance of having Import Disk to support HFS+? In Freenas 10?
From older post I gather it was supported in the past. I'd rather avoid copying TBs of data aver the network

I've been/am in your shoes basically, but for me it is not network transfer from a mac laptop or pc-laptop that is the hassle, it's connecting the stupid HFS and NTFS loose drives via USB2.0!! to the laptop that is aggravating. I'd rather figure out how to make stuff work, no matter how archaic sometimes!
Once your data is migrated, consider paring-back your reliance on HFS, I hear bad things. Myself, I've partitioned my ancient macBookPro's newer SSD so the HFS+ part is just OS and apps. Even importing NTFS volumes can be tricky/complex I'm learning first-hand right now. Networking here we come!

 

[coolnodje]

Indeed, I seem to have problems with AFP shares...

 

[Montel Bahn]

Last time I tried AFP was a year ago on 9.2,with OSX 10.10 I think, and it was unidirectional, read only... (I don't even remember in what direction sorry).
If that was expected behavior, it for sure wasn't as advertised. Check permissions/ACLs and ownership of share obviously, Mac's firewall, maybe even a port on the router. I have no clue really but I feel your pain, networking can be complex. I wanted NFS for my MAC to Freenas, but I'm kinda new so maybe that's why I couldn't get that working either.

I'd suggest SMB/CIFS, that seems to be working both ways for me with FreeNAS 9.3.

 

[Mlovelace]

If you have non-usb connected disks on your Mac zfs on osx works great. Check out https://openzfsonosx.org

I'd suggest installing homebrew too so you can use native bsd tools like smartmontools amoung others.

 

[coolnodje]

@Mlovelace I guess I'll keep experimenting ZFS on FreeNAS before I get it on my laptop ;)

@Montel Bahn, yeah somehow it's not working as transparently as one could hope. Which makes it unusable in reality, cause you never know if it's going to behave as expected.

I'd be happy to use samba or NFS, but as problematic as HFS can be, I still don't want to lose the color labels, tags, folder pictures I'm using on my movie database. So I'll keep looking for bugs and try to solve them...

 

[Mlovelace]

@Mlovelace I guess I'll keep experimenting ZFS on FreeNAS before I get it on my laptop ;)

You didn't say it was a laptop til just now, btw.

 

[Montel Bahn]

I still don't want to lose the color labels, tags, folder pictures I'm using on my movie database.

Don't delay backing up that Laptop! I'm not positive, but those Folder/directory settings might be stored in a hidden file.DS_Store with ls -a if that helps.

So I'll keep looking for bugs and try to solve them...

Me too. Sometimes there are Known Issues that seem like bugs, but it's usually Operator Error or inexperience in my case that i need to solve.

 

[coolnodje]

Copying 2TB of bigger file from Mac's USB attached disk to FreeNAS over a wired Gb network took less than 20hours. Not that bad, so an acceptable work around importing an HFS+ disk.