ZFS move from FreeBSD to Opensolaris ?

Andrew Snow andrew at modulus.org
Tue Mar 24 18:05:38 PDT 2009


Hussain Ali wrote:
> On a tangent, I can go from Mac -> OpenSolaris. I am guessing this maybe
> due to lack of EFI/GPT labels on the geom providers.

I believe Opensolaris writes an EFI label when it is given an entire 
disk to add to a pool.   FreeBSD does not do this or handle this case, 
it just uses the entire GEOM provider with no labelling.

- Andrew


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