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Date:      Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:53:36 -0600
From:      Garry Roseman <forestmoonsilence@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual-boot with common ZFS
Message-ID:  <549F0030.8030206@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <549EF25D.8010303@freebsd.org>
References:  <4A40BFDA-ABE9-4AB5-947F-C11343B9630B@metricspace.net> <549EF25D.8010303@freebsd.org>

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On 12/27/2014 11:54 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
> Your biggest issue with doing this with an existing ZFS install, is
> that you may have used ZFS features that are too new for Linux to
> support them. You might have to start over with a pool created with
> some of the feature flags turned off (or create the pool under Linux,
> and don't upgrade it on FreeBSD). 
I dual boot Gentoo (drive 0) and FreeBSD (drive 1) and share a zfs pool
(mirror drives 2 and 3) between them.  It was indeed necessary to create
the pool under Gentoo and not allow FreeBSD to upgrade it.  Luckily I
have an "old" Sandybridge cpu and FreeBSD Intel graphics is now very
good for me.



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