[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI new user questions

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:02 PM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> I am a long time Solaris user that tried out Linux for a couple of years,
> namely Ubuntu LTS. Alas, the Ubuntu updates caused numerous problems, in
> some cases causing a reinstall. At the end I switched to Ubuntu 2020.10
> hoping it would be more stable. It was not.
>
> Another problem is that OpenZFS v0.8.4 renders Solaris 11.3 disks
> unusable. Try this:
> -Create a ZFS disk in Solaris 11.3 (using zpool version 28, and zfs
> version 5)
> -Import the disk into Ubuntu 2020.10 using OpenZFS v0.8.4
> -Copy data to the zpool using Linux zfs send recv
> -Import the zpool back into Solaris 11.3 - This will fail. Solaris says
> the disk is UNAVAIL and I need to use a backup to restore data.
> So if you use OpenZFS to import a zpool, chances are you cannot import the
> disk back into Solaris.
>

As I recall, this is because ZFS embeds the labels of the devices used into
the pool,
so you have to allow for them being in an alternate format. I can't recall
offhand
whether we fixed that in illumos.


> 2) Does OI support Sunray? (Solaris 11.4 does not support Sunray)
>

Several people have got this working successfully - it was even displayed at
the illumos booth at FOSDEM this year.


> 5) I hope there is a mpt sas driver, because there was one in Solaris
> 11.3. Can anyone confirm? I have this LSI2008 SAS card for my JBOD raidz3 I
> would like to use.
>

Yes.


> 6) Virtualbox, does it work fine on OI? Is it problematic?
>

You have to use the VirtualBox that comes with OI. The Solaris version
you can download from virtualbox.org is no longer compatible and simply
won't work.

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