From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Feb 4 00:02:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789DCA9A938 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F864174D for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aR7Mo-0001k1-HJ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:01:46 +0100 Received: from ppp234-130.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.234.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:01:46 +0100 Received: from newsgroups by ppp234-130.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:01:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ruben Schade Subject: Migrating ZFS on Linux pools to FreeBSD Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:01:35 +1100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp234-130.static.internode.on.net X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.gmane.org:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:02:00 -0000 Hi everyone, I'm migrating a home HP Gen8 Microserver from Debian Jessie to FreeBSD 10.2. I have two mirrored ZFS pools created with the ZFS on Linux port, and want to access them on FreeBSD. I understand FreeBSD's ZFS implementation is more mature and pre-dates the Linux port, and some web searches indicate the two may not be entirely compatible. Most recommendations seem to be not to run Linux and FreeBSD off the same pools, for example: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/installing-freebsd-in-an-existing-zfs-pool.54831/ Does the same hold true for just data stores, and ones that are being migrated over without being accessed by Linux again? Are there any practical limitations to just using a ZFS pool created on Linux? If there’s reasonable doubt of issues I'll just rebuilt the pools under FreeBSD, but would be great if I didn't need to do that. It'd be cool if it’s just a # zpool upgrade away hah :) Cheers, -- Cheers, Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/ https://rubenerd.com/