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 be able to use Opensolaris when i'm done. My current system uses a Highpoint RocketRaid 2340. It has 12 1TB hard drives an intel core2 quad Q9550 and 8gb of ddr2 800 desktop ram. I'm going to buy 8 more 1TB drives, a Supermicro MBD-X7SBE motherboard 2 Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 raid cards and 8 gb of ddr2 800 registered ecc memory I know i probably can't import my current pool into opensolaris, but i was thinking i could use the 8 drives and create a pool which i COULD import, using that to back up my data. 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. Once i can do that, i'd like to create create a new pool in opensolaris using the old drives copy the data back, then destory the pool i used to migrate the data, so i can add those drives to my new opensolaris pool Also, is it possible to install opensolaris to compact flash cards? The reason i ask is that i know the root pool can't be raidz. My FreeBSD install is on 2 compact flash cards which i used to boot the system. I used 2 sata to compact flash adapters. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186051&cm_re=sata_to_compact_flash-_-12-186-051-_-Product I would like to use these 2 cards as my root pool if possible. They are 8 gb each. Thanks for any help/suggestions
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