It's funny how linuxers seem to continuously rant on about how closed technologies cause vendor lock-in... Now, I'm in a vendor lock-in with an open technology: Reiser FS.
I have around 300 gigs of data in a quintillion files, many of them with non-ascii filenames, on a ReiserFS partition. Now, I am planning on creating an OpenSolaris fileserver with two disks in Raid1, and would like to move this bulk over, with minimum risk of data corruption (including filename corruption, of course). Since Solaris has no native ReiserFS support, I'm currently contemplating my possibilities. Since it's a "copy once and forget ReiserFS forever" scenario, I definitely DO NOT want to spend time with installing Linux over any virtualization architecture, configuring NFS to copy files from the virtual linux to Solaris, or anything like that. The ideal scene would be where I plug in an USB stick with some liveCD distro, mount the RAIDed HDDs and the ReiserFS partition, do the copy, then forget I ever had anything to do with that liveCD. However, I'm unsure whether Linux supports ZFS (lol), and whether using a RAID array with two different software RAID implementations is safe. Ideas are welcome... :D Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
