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<p>93.219.59.70: Problems installing on Mojave</p> <hr /> <div>I was willing 2 try zfs on MacOS but when I saw u need to set verbose flags &quot;to make your kernel panics more useful&quot;...<br /> So it's not a matter if this software has some issues, IT'S TOTALLY SURE IT WILL BE KERNEL PANICS '''ON A FILESYSTEM LOW LEVEL SERVICE'''!!!<br /> <br /> == Uninstall before upgrade? ==<br /> <br /> The instructions are not clear on if you need to uninstall before upgrading O3X. (They are clear that you must uninstall if upgrading from a different distro.)<br /> Anyway, I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.7.2 without uninstalling, and it seems to have worked fine.<br /> <br /> == Problems installing on Mojave ==<br /> <br /> I followed the instructions on Mojave, and some things seem to be diffent there. <br /> <br /> sudo nvram boot-args=&quot;-v keepsyms=1&quot;<br /> <br /> did not work.<br /> <br /> Mymachine:zfs nemo$ kextstat | grep lundman<br /> Mymachine:zfs nemo$ cd /System/Library/Extensions<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ sudo kextload spl.kext<br /> /System/Library/Extensions/spl.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ sudo kextload -d spl.kext zfs.kext<br /> /System/Library/Extensions/zfs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ zpool<br /> missing command<br /> ...<br /> <br /> Trying to run zfs:<br /> <br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ /Users/nemo/Developer/zfs/load.sh <br /> rsync: link_stat &quot;/System/Library/Extensions/module/zfs/zfs.kext/.&quot; failed: No such file or directory (2)<br /> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-52.200.1/rsync/main.c(996) [sender=2.6.9]<br /> rsync: link_stat &quot;/System/Library/Extensions/../spl/module/spl/spl.kext/.&quot; failed: No such file or directory (2)<br /> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-52.200.1/rsync/main.c(996) [sender=2.6.9]<br /> chown: /tmp/spl.kext: Operation not permitted<br /> chown: /tmp/zfs.kext: Operation not permitted<br /> Requesting load of /tmp/spl.kext.<br /> /tmp/spl.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not privileged; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Requesting load of /tmp/zfs.kext.<br /> /tmp/zfs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not privileged; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$<br /> <br /> What should I do now?</div>

93.219.59.70 https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Talk:Install 2020-02-20T12:50:46Z

<p>93.219.59.70: kextstat part failed on Mojave</p> <hr /> <div>I was willing 2 try zfs on MacOS but when I saw u need to set verbose flags &quot;to make your kernel panics more useful&quot;...<br /> So it's not a matter if this software has some issues, IT'S TOTALLY SURE IT WILL BE KERNEL PANICS '''ON A FILESYSTEM LOW LEVEL SERVICE'''!!!<br /> <br /> == Uninstall before upgrade? ==<br /> <br /> The instructions are not clear on if you need to uninstall before upgrading O3X. (They are clear that you must uninstall if upgrading from a different distro.)<br /> Anyway, I upgraded from 1.4.5 to 1.7.2 without uninstalling, and it seems to have worked fine.<br /> <br /> == kextstat part failed on Mojave ==<br /> <br /> I followed the instructions on Mojave, and some things seem to be diffent there. <br /> <br /> sudo nvram boot-args=&quot;-v keepsyms=1&quot;<br /> <br /> did not work.<br /> <br /> Mymachine:zfs nemo$ kextstat | grep lundman<br /> Mymachine:zfs nemo$ cd /System/Library/Extensions<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ sudo kextload spl.kext<br /> /System/Library/Extensions/spl.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ sudo kextload -d spl.kext zfs.kext<br /> /System/Library/Extensions/zfs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) not loadable (reason unspecified); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).<br /> Mymachine:Extensions nemo$ zpool<br /> missing command</div>

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