Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-27 Thread Austin
I don't know how much progress has been made on this, but back when I moved from FreeBSD (an older version, maybe the first to have stable ZFS) to Solaris, this couldn't be done since they were not quite compatible yet. I got some new drives since the ones I had were dated, copied the data to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-27 Thread Thomas Burgess
This isn't an option for me. The current machine is going to be totally upgraded, New motherboard, new ram (ecc) new controller cards and 9 new hard drives. Current pool is 3 raidz1 vdevs with 4 drives each (all 1 tb) It's about 65% full. If i have to use some other filesystem that is an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:36, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Mattias Pantzare wrote: I'm not sure how to go about it.  Basically, how should i format my drives in FreeBSD, create a ZPOOL which can be imported into OpenSolaris. I'm not sure about BSD, but Solaris ZFS works with whole

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 24 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Mattias Pantzare pant...@ludd.ltu.se wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:36, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting! It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label. You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Mattias Pantzare
An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting! It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label. You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed OS independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all OSs can read EFI disks. My Commodore 128D could boot CP/M but couldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 24 Dec 2009, at 21:27, Mattias Pantzare pant...@ludd.ltu.se wrote: An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting! It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label. You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed OS independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread BM
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Mattias Pantzare pant...@ludd.ltu.se wrote: On a PC EFI is very OS specific as most OS on that platform does not support EFI. What you mean by most OS on PC does not support EFI and what is PC platform anyway? There is some crappy i386 hardware that does not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread BM
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 9:24 AM, BM wrote: EFI is a label, that differs from the VTOC mainly by supporting larger than 2GB disks (exceptions are SCSI and SSD drives) I mean, TB. :-) -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Thomas Burgess
guys! it's alll good. We don't need to argue about whether or not EFI is or isn't platform independentwhat would be nice, is if someone can explain the best way to create a zpool in freebsd that i can import into solaris so i can move my data. I've still got a week or two before i have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-23 Thread Ian Collins
On Thu 24/12/09 10:31 , Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com sent: I was wondering what the best method of moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to OpenSolaris is. When i originally built my system, it was using hardware which wouldn't work in opensolairs, but i'm about to do an upgrade so i should

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Is the pool on slices or whole drives? If the latter, you should be able to import the pool (unless BSD introduces any incompatibilities). It's on whole disks but if i remember right those disks are tied to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-23 Thread Mattias Pantzare
I'm not sure how to go about it.  Basically, how should i format my drives in FreeBSD, create a ZPOOL which can be imported into OpenSolaris. I'm not sure about BSD, but Solaris ZFS works with whole devices.  So there isn't any OS specific formatting involved.  I assume BSD does the same.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-23 Thread Ian Collins
Mattias Pantzare wrote: I'm not sure how to go about it. Basically, how should i format my drives in FreeBSD, create a ZPOOL which can be imported into OpenSolaris. I'm not sure about BSD, but Solaris ZFS works with whole devices. So there isn't any OS specific formatting involved. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-23 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting! at the risk of sounding really stupidis an EFI label the same as using guid partions? I think i remember reading about setting GUID partioned disks in FreeBSD. If so, i