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 03:55:27PM -0700, 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 > systems? That is, can I export a pool created on the SPARC box, then > import that on the Opteron box and have all the data there (and the pool > work normally)? > > Normally, I'd run into problems with Fdisk vs EFI vs VTOC > labeling/partitioning, but I was hoping that ZFS would magically make my > life simpler here... > > :-) > > > > > -- > Erik Trimble > Java System Support > Mailstop: usca14-102 > Phone: x17195 > Santa Clara, CA > Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
