[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool version compatibility

[Heinrich van Riel]

Thanks, I missed that. I am good now.



On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jan Owoc <jsowoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jan Owoc <jsowoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Heinrich van Riel
> > <heinrich.vanriel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Since there is a split pool version is version 28 the highest that
> would be
> >> compatible between the releases or can I import a version 29 created in
> >> Oracle into Illumos?
> >
> > No. Zpool version 29 is closed-source, so it is unlikely that anything
> > other than Solaris 11+ will be able to read it.
> >
> > The incompatibility goes both ways, so a zpool created with the
> > current OpenIndiana (or anything Illumos-based that uses feature
> > flags) is unlikely to be readable by Solaris, unless you explicitly
> > create the zpool as version 28.
>
> One additional thing to keep in mind is that recently the zfs
> filesystem (i.e the version of the filesystem, as opposed to the
> zpool) was also incremented in Solaris 11.1. You may need to specify
> zpool version 28 AND zfs version 5 when creating the pool to ensure
> Illumos (or anything other than Solaris 11.1+) can read it in the
> future.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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