On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:02 PM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> I am a long time Solaris user that tried out Linux for a couple of years, > namely Ubuntu LTS. Alas, the Ubuntu updates caused numerous problems, in > some cases causing a reinstall. At the end I switched to Ubuntu 2020.10 > hoping it would be more stable. It was not. > > Another problem is that OpenZFS v0.8.4 renders Solaris 11.3 disks > unusable. Try this: > -Create a ZFS disk in Solaris 11.3 (using zpool version 28, and zfs > version 5) > -Import the disk into Ubuntu 2020.10 using OpenZFS v0.8.4 > -Copy data to the zpool using Linux zfs send recv > -Import the zpool back into Solaris 11.3 - This will fail. Solaris says > the disk is UNAVAIL and I need to use a backup to restore data. > So if you use OpenZFS to import a zpool, chances are you cannot import the > disk back into Solaris. > As I recall, this is because ZFS embeds the labels of the devices used into the pool, so you have to allow for them being in an alternate format. I can't recall offhand whether we fixed that in illumos. > 2) Does OI support Sunray? (Solaris 11.4 does not support Sunray) > Several people have got this working successfully - it was even displayed at the illumos booth at FOSDEM this year. > 5) I hope there is a mpt sas driver, because there was one in Solaris > 11.3. Can anyone confirm? I have this LSI2008 SAS card for my JBOD raidz3 I > would like to use. > Yes. > 6) Virtualbox, does it work fine on OI? Is it problematic? > You have to use the VirtualBox that comes with OI. The Solaris version you can download from virtualbox.org is no longer compatible and simply won't work. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
