Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-21 Thread Neil Perrin
Philip Brown wrote On 09/21/06 20:28,: Eric Schrock wrote: If you're using EFI labels, yes (VTOC labels are not endian neutral). ZFS will automatically convert endianness from the on-disk format, and new data will be written using the native endianness, so data will be gradually be rewritten

[zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread Erik Trimble
OK, this may seem like a stupid question (and we all know that there are such things...) I'm considering sharing a disk array (something like a 3510FC) between two different systems, a SPARC and an Opteron. Will ZFS transparently work to import/export pools between the two systems? That is, can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Schrock
If you're using EFI labels, yes (VTOC labels are not endian neutral). ZFS will automatically convert endianness from the on-disk format, and new data will be written using the native endianness, so data will be gradually be rewritten to avoid the byteswap overhead. - Eric On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread James C. McPherson
Erik Trimble wrote: OK, this may seem like a stupid question (and we all know that there are such things...) I'm considering sharing a disk array (something like a 3510FC) between two different systems, a SPARC and an Opteron. Will ZFS transparently work to import/export pools between the two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread Torrey McMahon
Erik Trimble wrote: OK, this may seem like a stupid question (and we all know that there are such things...) I'm considering sharing a disk array (something like a 3510FC) between two different systems, a SPARC and an Opteron. Will ZFS transparently work to import/export pools between the two

Re: [zfs-discuss] Importing ZFS filesystems across architectures...

2006-09-13 Thread James Dickens
On 9/13/06, Erik Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this may seem like a stupid question (and we all know that there are such things...) I'm considering sharing a disk array (something like a 3510FC) between two different systems, a SPARC and an Opteron. Will ZFS transparently work to