MacOS High Sierra: NFS filesystem issues

[klonos]

Problem/Motivation

After upgrading to the latest High Sierra MacOS (and inevitably switching to APFS), I started having various file system related problems. Most notable:

• I would simply ll from docroot and files that I have just copied there from Finder would just not show up in the list
• Old instances would work properly (or so I though), but freshly-created ones would throw "weird" errors like this:

Drupal\Component\Plugin\Exception\PluginNotFoundException: The "list" plugin does not exist. in Drupal\Core\Plugin\DefaultPluginManager->doGetDefinition() (line 52 of /var/beetbox/docroot/ 

https://github.com/acquia/lightning/issues/455

Expected behaviour

I expect my instances to work without "funny" file system problems that I then have to spend hours troubleshooting.

Actual behaviour

Files that exist on the host do not get listed in the guest.

Steps to reproduce

1. Upgrade to MacOS High Sierra.
2. Fire up a new instance.
3. From your host/Finder, copy a file to your docroot (a sql dump for example)
4. vagrant ssh
5. ll -> all files are listed, but the file you have copied from step 3 above is not.

Proposed changes

...FWIW, this workaround has worked for me: hashicorp/vagrant#8788 (comment)

Related:

hashicorp/vagrant#8788
geerlingguy/drupal-vm#1547
http://www.qed42.com/blog/macos-sierra-issues-vagrant

[thom8]

@klonos hopefully Vagrant will provide an upstream fix, until then I'm not upgrading, but you're welcome to propose a PR for a fix.

[klonos]

@thom8 what I have is just a workaround that is on the host OS level (creating a disk image that uses Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system instead of the new APFS that comes with High Sierra). So nothing that can be provided in the form of a PR.

I understand that this is an upstream issue. I just wanted to save some time for people that have the same problem and come to the issue queue. I hope that the links to the related tickets provide them with some a clues and pointers as to how to work around their issues until this is addressed.

I hope that you don't find this too much "noise".

[thom8]

All good to log the issue! -- just making sure you weren't waiting for a fix from my end as we can't create a code fix for that workaround.

[thom8]

Apparently, this issue has been resolved in the latest OS fixes, can anyone confirm?

[mpriscella]

@thom8 Upgraded to High Sierra v10.13.1 and am still experiencing this issue, I'd still hold off on upgrading if you haven't already!

[thom8]

Thanks @mpriscella, I normally wait to the last minute for any OS updates to my work machine.

Been the guinea pig too many times before ;)

[klonos]

Just wanted to report that I am on High Sierra 10.13.3 for some weeks now, and the problem seems to have been sorted for me. If we can have another person verify this, I think that it would be safe to close this ticket. @mpriscella ??

[mpriscella]

@klonos Yep, I've been on High Sierra 10.13.3 for a while now and am no longer experiencing this issue. I'd call it safe to close!

[thom8]

Thanks for confirming 👍