Perhaps slightly elegant, you can do the new pool/rsync thing on the 11.1 live CD so you don't actually have to stand up a new system to do this. Assuming this is x86 and VirtualBox works on Illumos, you could fire up a VM to do this as well.
Bob Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Jan Owoc <jso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Bob Netherton <bob.nether...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Jan Owoc <jso...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes, that is correct. The last version of Solaris with source code >>> used zpool version 28. This is the last version that is readable by >>> non-Solaris operating systems FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, but also >>> OpenIndiana. The filesystem, "zfs", is technically at the same >>> version, but you can't access it if you can't access the pool :-). >> >> That is a touch misleading. This has always been the case since S10u2. You >> have to create the pool AND the file systems at the oldest versions you want >> to support. >> >> I maintain a table of pool and version numbers on my blog (blogs.oracle. >> com/bobn) for this very purpose. I got lazy the other day and made this >> mistake between 11ga and 11.1. >> >> Watch the ZFS send approach because you might be sending a newer file system >> version than is supported. Yes, I've done that too :) > > Bob, you are correct. There is now a new version of "zfs" in Solaris > 11.1. I assume it's incompatible with the previous version: > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29007/gjxik.html#scrolltoc > > Any suggestions how to help OP read his data on anything but Solaris > 11.1 or migrate it "back" a version? > > Jan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
