Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

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Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by Shaman » Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:42 pm

Does it support the zpool v8 enough to do this?
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Post by grahamperrin » Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:17 am

Shaman wrote:Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?


I believe not.

An alert from the guide:

ZEVO uses the standard ZFS on-disk format (v28) and is therefore binary compatible with ZFS on other platforms. However, direct interchange with other platforms is not supported in this version.


More specifically, from dbrady in a topic with some discussion of MacZFS:

… We don't officially support importing pools from other platforms …


Whilst both MacZFS and ZEVO are Mac platform-based: as differences include disk device names, loosely I view the current MacZFS as a different platform from the current ZEVO.

Does it support the zpool v8 enough to do this?


MacZFS-related topics include Importing MacZFS pools into Zevo CE.

Whilst the forum disallows searches for phrases such as MacZFS and support, please browse all areas of the forum; some things unrelated to installation are in the installation area.
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Re: Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by nola » Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:43 pm

No, importing/updating a pool created with MacZFS to ZEVO is not officially supported. The on disk file formats between v8 and v28 are to great to span. We recommend you send/recv the data from MacZFS pool to new ZEVO pool.

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Re: Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by Shaman » Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:48 pm

What will compatibility with ZFS in general look like going forward? My concern is moving to ZEVO and not be able to properly use it elsewhere.

Thank you for taking the time to respond.
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Re: Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by Shaman » Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:49 pm

nola wrote:No, importing/updating a pool created with MacZFS to ZEVO is not officially supported. The on disk file formats between v8 and v28 are to great to span. We recommend you send/recv the data from MacZFS pool to new ZEVO pool.

-nola


btw, how is this to be achieved? You'd need two macs, yes?
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Re: Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:38 am

Shaman wrote:… You'd need two macs, yes?


Not necessarily. I reckon, the send could be from:

  • any OS with which you can use the disk (produced by MacZFS) in a way that is recommended or supported by MacZFS.
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Re: Does ZEVO officially support an upgrade from MacZFS?

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:41 am

Shaman wrote:What will compatibility with ZFS in general look like going forward? My concern is moving to ZEVO and not be able to properly use it elsewhere. …


Over please to Compatibility with other ZFS systems – I'll post something there in due course. Thanks.
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