From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 19:31:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF19A1065673 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:31:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (cc535223-a.groni1.gr.home.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712DD8FC17 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] [192.168.11.34] by arwen (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1457B0; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:33:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4C644C02.1030505@nagual.nl> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:31:14 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C63F2C9.90406@nagual.nl> <21C5042E-9613-45E1-B0D9-1C2AA422A015@gull.us> In-Reply-To: <21C5042E-9613-45E1-B0D9-1C2AA422A015@gull.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 Subject: Re: ZFS data from snv_b134 to fbsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:31:16 -0000 On 12-8-2010 20:04, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:10 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> I want to transfer a lot of ZFS data from an old OpenSolaris ZFS >> mirror (v22) to a new FreeBSD-8.1 ZFs mirror (v14). > I'm NOT a ZFS expert, but I think it should be OK as long as you don't > upgrade the v14 pool. OpenSolaris won't upgrade pool versions > automatically, so this shouldn' t be a problem. > > I'm assuming this is a normal file copy, here; if you're trying to use > 'zfs send' and 'zfs receive' I think you'll run into difficulty. Yes, it will be normal file copying. It's eassuring that osol won't ugrade the pool ;-) My main concern was that there would be some (although maybe slight) difference between FreeBSD ZFS and OpenSolaris.