<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Bob.</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like a good starting point. I will create the pool using OI and see if I am able to access it from other OSs.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM Bob Friesenhahn <<a href="mailto:graphicsmagick.project@gmail.com">graphicsmagick.project@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">If you are able to create the original zfs pool and filesystem format supported by Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris (before feature flags), then that should be a useful baseline which should work for Solaris, Illumos, FreeBSD, and Linux. That is provided that the OpenZFS implementations are respectful and do not automatically upgrade the pool version, or veer outside the bounds of the original specification. OpenSolaris and Illumos introduced the original feature flags so many of the feature flags should work with derivative zfs implementations.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There is no substitute for testing!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bob</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:22 PM Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com" target="_blank">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>A file system related generic question:</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking to keep one of my GPT Partitions on my disk to be a file system that both Illumos (Solaris) / FreeBSD and Linux can read. This will be primarily to store data. I know there's vfat (fat32). Wanna know if there's anything better (non-MSFTish) out there.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than exfat, fat32 what else do we have?</div><div><br></div><div>I started using openzfs (which is at version 2.3.3 rn) on linux. However, there's probably a version difference with Illumos/OI.</div><div>Since, I couldn't complete the OI setup on my machine yet I don't know what version of zfs we are using on OI. I am not quite sure if zfs will be a viable option due to lack of compatible versions (openzfs on linux and ZFS on illumos).</div><div><br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_6901083331516348887_m_-128603914131552463_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Best!</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_6901083331516348887_m_-128603914131552463_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div></div>
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