Dual-boot with common ZFS

Garry Roseman forestmoonsilence at gmail.com
Sat Dec 27 18:53:39 UTC 2014


On 12/27/2014 11:54 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
> Your biggest issue with doing this with an existing ZFS install, is
> that you may have used ZFS features that are too new for Linux to
> support them. You might have to start over with a pool created with
> some of the feature flags turned off (or create the pool under Linux,
> and don't upgrade it on FreeBSD). 
I dual boot Gentoo (drive 0) and FreeBSD (drive 1) and share a zfs pool
(mirror drives 2 and 3) between them.  It was indeed necessary to create
the pool under Gentoo and not allow FreeBSD to upgrade it.  Luckily I
have an "old" Sandybridge cpu and FreeBSD Intel graphics is now very
good for me.


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