Hi Jean-Pierre, > it was a pita to have to do zpool import/export when switching oses Yep, I am having the same pita experience.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM Jean-Pierre André via oi-dev < oi-dev@openindiana.org> wrote: > Stephan Althaus via oi-dev wrote on 8/17/25 9:42 AM: > > On 8/17/25 02:08, Bob Friesenhahn 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 > > > > Hi! > > > > Yes, if you use the "-d" option with zpool create, all of illumos, > > Solaris 10+, BSD, Linux with installed ZFS support can read/write to it. > > > > You are able to enable additional features one by one, whilst checking > > if the features are available to all of you favorite OS. > > > > BTDT. > > > > BTW, i've tried a ZFS Package for Windows 1-2 years ago, that worked in > > my test case.. > > https://openzfsonwindows.org/ > > > > For my camera sd card i use EXFAT, there's a pkg on OI available (built > > from https://github.com/relan/exfat.git - uses libFUSE) > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Stephan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > oi-dev mailing list > > oi-dev@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > > I also tried sharing a zfs partition over Linux and OpenIndiana > a few years ago, with consistent uids and gids across oses. > > It worked, but it was a pita to have to do zpool import/export > when switching oses. Maybe this can be avoided, but I did not > know how. > > Jean-Pierre >
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