Importing MacZFS pools into Zevo CE

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Importing MacZFS pools into Zevo CE

Post by wonkywonky » Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:29 am

Is there any support for this?

I have a mix of mirrors and RAIDZ vdevs in my desktop and storage server - total dataset ~4TB. All drives were set up with GPT, ZFS labels, etc as per the MacZFS recommendations, and ashift=12. Is there a way to directly import the pools into Zevo CE or do I need to rebuild the pool and shuffle data around manually?

Update:
On my storage server:
I installed Zevo CE over MacZFS and the pools were imported with no issues. Scrub completed with no errors and all data looks fine and accessible. Two pools: 1) 2 x 4-drive RAIDZ, 2) 2 x 2-drive MIRROR.

On my desktop:
Zevo CE was unable to import a 2-drive MIRROR pool, giving the error: invalid vdev configuration. I eventually blew away the original MacZFS pool and rebuilt it under Zevo.
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Re: Importing MacZFS pools into Zevo CE

Post by elfpltfn » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:45 am

+1
I am in the same boat ~10Tb MacZFS pool, Last guidance I read required reformatting the disks and creating a new pool, with some commentary about the difficulty of upgrading the on disk format in place.

If I'm wrong you'll make me VERY happy.

Thanks
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Re: Importing MacZFS pools into Zevo CE

Post by jasonturner » Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:53 pm

Same here.

Wondering if ZEVO can be installed on a system that already has MacZFS installed?

Or do I have to recreate the ZFS Pools and ZRAID in ZEVO?

Currently have MacZFS on a MacMini running Mountain Lion Server with a Promise Pegasus R4 4TB Thunderbolt raid.
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