Is it known yet if Big Sur is still APFS-only, or did Apple finally bite the bullet with its long rumored to-be-coming ZFS support?
-Carl > On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > > OK, I thought you were saying it only rebooted when you weren't there to > watch it. > > When I encountered this behavior recently, I found there was corruption in > the APFS snapshots. Unfortunately, I found this only after the machine > committed total hara-kiri, because Disk Utility was entirely too incompetent > to detect any problem at all, and DiskWarrior still can't handle APFS. The > problem was entirely undetectable until macOS finally diagnosed it by > refusing to boot at all.. and by that time it was impossible for macOS to > correct. > > An early symptom of the problem was that Time Machine backups had (silently) > stopped running — they'd launch, spend a lot of time "preparing," then stop > with no message. Heroic attempts to diagnose/correct that problem also failed > completely, but subsequent experience indicates it was another effect of the > same corruption. > > My advice is for you to keep an actual clone copy up to date (on a non-APFS > drive) so you'll have something to recover from on the day macOS finally > wakes up and realizes, "Looka that, I'm dead!" > >> On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com >> <mailto:j...@jeffweinberger.com>> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 7:18 PM Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: >> Do you have automatic updating enabled? If the system performs an automatic >> update that requires a reboot, it will reboot. >> >> I have automatic updates enabled for things other than system updates, so >> there should never be a reboot and there never was one in any previous >> version before Big Sur. >> >> Also the time it rebooted while I was working was very sudden - it didn't >> shut down in an orderly fashion. It just instantly went black and then the >> apple logo appeared. >> >> >> > On Nov 19, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Jeff Weinberger <j...@jeffweinberger.com >> > <mailto:j...@jeffweinberger.com>> wrote: >> > >> > I upgraded my iMac (21.5 inch, Late 2015) to Big Sur (11.0.1). Since then >> > it's been restarting every now and then. I've noticed it tends to happen >> > when I've been away from it for a while (like overnight, or if I go out >> > for a few hours), but it's also happened once while I was working. It's >> > probably happened 4-5 times since I upgraded 3 days ago. >> > >> > Is this a known bug? Has anyone seen this? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MacOSX-talk mailing list >> > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com <mailto:MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com> >> > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > <https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com <mailto:MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com> >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> <https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk> > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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