<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jean-Pierre,</div><div>> it was a pita to have to do zpool import/export when switching oses</div><div>Yep, I am having the same pita experience.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM Jean-Pierre André via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</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">Stephan Althaus via oi-dev wrote on 8/17/25 9:42 AM:<br>
> On 8/17/25 02:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:<br>
>> If you are able to create the original zfs pool and filesystem format <br>
>> supported by Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris (before feature flags), then <br>
>> that should be a useful baseline which should work for Solaris, <br>
>> Illumos, FreeBSD, and Linux. That is provided that the OpenZFS <br>
>> implementations are respectful and do not automatically upgrade the <br>
>> pool version, or veer outside the bounds of the original <br>
>> specification. OpenSolaris and Illumos introduced the original feature <br>
>> flags so many of the feature flags should work with derivative zfs <br>
>> implementations.<br>
>><br>
>> There is no substitute for testing!<br>
>><br>
>> Bob<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 6:22 PM Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com" target="_blank">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> A file system related generic question:<br>
>><br>
>> I am looking to keep one of my GPT Partitions on my disk to be a<br>
>> file system that both Illumos (Solaris) / FreeBSD and Linux can<br>
>> read. This will be primarily to store data. I know there's vfat<br>
>> (fat32). Wanna know if there's anything better (non-MSFTish) out<br>
>> there.<br>
>><br>
>> Other than exfat, fat32 what else do we have?<br>
>><br>
>> I started using openzfs (which is at version 2.3.3 rn) on linux.<br>
>> However, there's probably a version difference with Illumos/OI.<br>
>> Since, I couldn't complete the OI setup on my machine yet I don't<br>
>> know what version of zfs we are using on OI. I am not quite sure<br>
>> if zfs will be a viable option due to lack of compatible versions<br>
>> (openzfs on linux and ZFS on illumos).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Best!<br>
>><br>
>> Atiq<br>
>><br>
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> <br>
> Hi!<br>
> <br>
> Yes, if you use the "-d" option with zpool create, all of illumos, <br>
> Solaris 10+, BSD, Linux with installed ZFS support can read/write to it.<br>
> <br>
> You are able to enable additional features one by one, whilst checking <br>
> if the features are available to all of you favorite OS.<br>
> <br>
> BTDT.<br>
> <br>
> BTW, i've tried a ZFS Package for Windows 1-2 years ago, that worked in <br>
> my test case..<br>
> <a href="https://openzfsonwindows.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://openzfsonwindows.org/</a><br>
> <br>
> For my camera sd card i use EXFAT, there's a pkg on OI available (built <br>
> from <a href="https://github.com/relan/exfat.git" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/relan/exfat.git</a> - uses libFUSE)<br>
> <br>
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> Regards,<br>
> <br>
> Stephan<br>
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<br>
I also tried sharing a zfs partition over Linux and OpenIndiana<br>
a few years ago, with consistent uids and gids across oses.<br>
<br>
It worked, but it was a pita to have to do zpool import/export<br>
when switching oses. Maybe this can be avoided, but I did not<br>
know how.<br>
<br>
Jean-Pierre<br>
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