Hi, Can I export a ZFS pool on Solaris 10 x86 and then import it on a Solaris 10 Sparc? Are ZFS pools portable between sparc an x86 Solaris 10? Thanks in advance, Ana -- <http://www.sun.com> * Ana Maria Bareche Tierz * Professional Services *Sun Microsystems Iberia* Edificio Caja Madrid, Av Diagonal 640, Esc 2, 6B Barcelona 08017 SPAIN Phone +34 93 480 40 00 (x75405) Mobile +34 699 46 04 03 Fax +34 93 480 40 08 Email Ana.Bareche at Sun.COM <http://www.sun.com>
ana bareche tierz wrote:> Hi, > > Can I export a ZFS pool on Solaris 10 x86 and then import it on a > Solaris 10 Sparc? > Are ZFS pools portable between sparc an x86 Solaris 10?Pools themselves can be transferred. zfs stores the metadata in the native endianism (big-endian sparc, little-end x86), but will read metadata written either way around, so it can read zpools written on the other endianism without you needing to do anything. You need to be using a disk partitioning scheme which is recognised on both sparc and x86 such as EFI labels (which is the default if ZFS was given a whole disk). I think you''ll struggle if you are using SMI disk labels, as they aren''t the same on sparc and x86. -- Andrew