Thanks Bob. Sounds like a good starting point. I will create the pool using OI and see if I am able to access it from other OSs.
Atiq On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM Bob Friesenhahn < graphicsmagick.proj...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are able to create the original zfs pool and filesystem format > supported by Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris (before feature flags), then that > should be a useful baseline which should work for Solaris, Illumos, > FreeBSD, and Linux. That is provided that the OpenZFS implementations are > respectful and do not automatically upgrade the pool version, or veer > outside the bounds of the original specification. OpenSolaris and Illumos > introduced the original feature flags so many of the feature flags should > work with derivative zfs implementations. > > There is no substitute for testing! > > Bob > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:22 PM Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> A file system related generic question: >> >> I am looking to keep one of my GPT Partitions on my disk to be a file >> system that both Illumos (Solaris) / FreeBSD and Linux can read. This will >> be primarily to store data. I know there's vfat (fat32). Wanna know if >> there's anything better (non-MSFTish) out there. >> >> Other than exfat, fat32 what else do we have? >> >> I started using openzfs (which is at version 2.3.3 rn) on linux. However, >> there's probably a version difference with Illumos/OI. >> Since, I couldn't complete the OI setup on my machine yet I don't know >> what version of zfs we are using on OI. I am not quite sure if zfs will be >> a viable option due to lack of compatible versions (openzfs on linux and >> ZFS on illumos). >> >> >> Best! >> >> Atiq >> _______________________________________________ >> oi-dev mailing list >> oi-dev@openindiana.org >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev >
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