Hi. Is the FreeBSD v28 zfs fully compatible with solaris zfs ? I need to switch disks between servers, these disks are SAN disks, and it's about 20T of data. I don't want to lose them. I am aware that our zfs is compatible with Solaris, but I just want to be sure, like really really sure. Of course I can switch back at any moment, but only if the data won't become corrupted. Thanks. Eugene.
07.02.2013 14:16, Eugene M. Zheganin:> Hi. > > Is the FreeBSD v28 zfs fully compatible with solaris zfs ? I need to > switch disks between servers, these disks are SAN disks, and it's about > 20T of data. I don't want to lose them. I am aware that our zfs is > compatible with Solaris, but I just want to be sure, like really really > sure. Of course I can switch back at any moment, but only if the data > won't become corrupted.I think one simple way to test that is to create a replication stream for some filesystem with `zfs send` on first machine and check whether this stream is received correctly on the second machine. I'm mostly sure that you wouldn't lose your data, however Solaris is staying with ZFS v28 since the last release and FreeBSD is progressing slowly with Illumos. I'm pretty sure that 9-STABLE is already using ZFS feats and any pool created with current STABLE would not become writable for Solaris. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
If the pool is created as v28 in FreeBSD, then you will be able to import the pool into Solaris 10 or 11 without any issues. Just be sure to ignore all the "your pool is outdated messages", and do *NOT* upgrade your pool to ZFSv32 in Solaris. If you do that, you will not be able to import the pool in FreeBSD again. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz at norma.perm.ru>wrote:> Hi. > > Is the FreeBSD v28 zfs fully compatible with solaris zfs ? I need to > switch disks between servers, these disks are SAN disks, and it's about > 20T of data. I don't want to lose them. I am aware that our zfs is > compatible with Solaris, but I just want to be sure, like really really > sure. Of course I can switch back at any moment, but only if the data > won't become corrupted. > > Thanks. > Eugene. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >-- Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com