Access Zevo ZFS volumes from Windows?

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Access Zevo ZFS volumes from Windows?

Post by chriswayg » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:56 am

I have a few ZFS formatted external drives, which I would like to access from a Bootcamp Windows installation or a Windows PC, at least in read only mode. For HFS+ volumes there are several utilities that give access from Windows, but there does not seem to be anything comparable for ZFS.

What would be the best option (preferably from actual experience of accessing a Zevo ZFS volume from Windows)?

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Re: Access Zevo ZFS volumes from Windows?

Post by si-ghan-bi » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:08 am

olaris uses another type of partition table, I suggest something like FreeNAS or NAS4free on a VM, but I don't have more accurate information.
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Post by grahamperrin » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:21 am

Access a ZFS volume in Windows? - Super User

Answers there include one from me.
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Re: Access Zevo ZFS volumes from Windows?

Post by chriswayg » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:30 pm

grahamperrin wrote:Access a ZFS volume in Windows? - Super User
Answers there include one from me.
Well, I read that post before asking here, but it doesn't really answer my question. Ideas of what might or should work are mentioned, but its less clear of what actually does work. In your comment you mentioned, that you haven't really used zfs-win. Have you tried it since then? Any success?

I've downloaded and installed win-zfs and Dokan (FUSE for windows) and have tried it, but the absolute lack of zfs-win documentation makes it rather useless for non-programmers. Its also not clear, if pool version 28 is supported at all, as the utility was written in 2010. The zfs-win google group is empty. This is the only 'documentation':
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usage:
  mount <mountpoint> <dataset> <pool ..>
  list <pool ..>

examples:
  zfs-win.exe mount "m:\" "rpool/ROOT/opensolaris" "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" "\\.\PhysicalDrive2"
  zfs-win.exe list "Virtual Machine-flat.vmdk"
Using: zfs-win.exe list "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" does not find the zfs pool. I have Windows on 'PhysicalDrive0', a USB drive with a zfs pool named 'Zdata' on 'PhysicalDrive1'. How would I mount that using the above syntax?

More specific to Zevo is the question, if any of the suggested methods would work at all, as there is a disclaimer by Greenbytes, that Zevo zfs pools may not be directly interchangable with Solaris or other implementations of zfs. (I suppose it should be safe to access it read only, though.) The only other alternative then would be OS X with Zevo running in a VM on Windows, which is not officially supported by Apple.
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Re: Access Zevo ZFS volumes from Windows?

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:54 pm

chriswayg wrote:… disclaimer by Greenbytes, that Zevo zfs pools may not be directly interchangable with Solaris or other implementations of zfs. …


Re: viewtopic.php?p=64#p64 at least FreeBSD might be OK.

Re: viewtopic.php?p=2771#p2771 in the same topic, if FreeBSD (or whatever) in the virtual machine become a method for Windows (NFC-oriented) to access a file system that uses NFD, then I wonder how Windows behaves with NFD. I'm looking at two pages – 


– but don't know what, if anything, to conclude.
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