On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Bob Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:16 -0700, Daniel Templeton wrote: > > Is there a way that I can add the disk to a ZFS pool and have > > the ZFS pool accessible to all of the OS instances? I poked through the > > docs and searched around a bit, but I couldn't find anything on the > topic. > > Yes. I do that all of the time. The trick here is to create the pool > and filesystems with the oldest Solaris you will use. ZFS has very > good backward compatibility but not the reverse. > > Here's a trick that will come in handy. Create quite a few empty > ZFS filesystems in your oldest Solaris. In my case the pool is > called throatwarbler and I have misc1 misc2 misc3 misc4 misc5 ..... > > What happens is that I will be running a newer Solaris and want a > filesystem. Rather than reboot to the older Solaris, just rename > misc[n] to the new name. > Bob, is there any specific reason why you suggest the creation of a bunch of zfs datasets up front? I have found that once you have created the ZFS pool on the oldest Solaris, you should be able to create zfs datasets within it from any supported OS (including Linux with zfs-fuse) My experience with this: I had to create the zpool with zfs-fuse under Linux, and after that I was able to manipulate, import, and export the pool from on all releases. -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com
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