Florin wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, I am new to (Open)Solaris environment, so please be gentle. > Previously, I worked with Ubuntu Linux distribution and now I switched to > Solaris 10, only because of ZFS file system. Now, my problem is related to > the fact that under Ubuntu I build a RAID5 system using mdadm. I need to > import/mount that raid to Solaris 10. Please could you help to do it? I use mdadm and Linux RAID partitions on my machine. I also have a windows copy installed on same machine and since there is etx3 file system on top of that Linux software RAID, I can read that ext3 without problem from Windows, using explore2fs program.
I think problem is that Opensolaris also have trouble reading ext2/3 with or without software RAID. But this look promising: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ext3/Project_status http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ext3/files http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ext3/quick_start It states that you can read(and write) ext2/3 actually.. try it. Also, if you use software linux RAID as RAID1 with duplicated data, you could delete one of them , make it normal ext2/3 partition (or UFS) and just copy data on it and later read from Opensolaris. Also, consider zfs-fuse project for adding ZFS file system support on top of Linux, so you can mount ZFS and copy data, etc. I think I added zfs-fuse mostly straigthforward to my Ubuntu LTS 8.04 64 bit, I even found .deb package somewhere Oh yes, here it is (even PPA is available with package) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS Also FreeBSD have good ZFS support in it and could be used (I don`t know about LinuxRaid, but take a look) . And at the end, the best system to use or even consider ZFS truely is Opensolaris.
