So, I did that (created a zfs pool using illumos) and I am able to access it from everywhere. It's been working great so far!
Thanks to all of you for the suggestions! Atiq On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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