But unless you really need those specific features, migrating is worth all the work! If you already have a pool running on Linux with "Linux-only" features, or newer features enabled in the pool, you need to backup the data, export the pool, and then create a new pool on FreeBSD. However, migrating an exiting ZFS pool from Linux to FreeBSD isn't easy. You don't have to patch anything, and you don't have to worry about breakage, and all the tools know about ZFS. But since FreeBSD is pulling stuff in from ZFS on Linux now, rather than Solaris, it is getting new ZFS features faster.īut the most important thing is that ZFS is treated as a first class citizen. The FreeBSD version of ZFS is a bit behind the ZFS version on Linux, and as such FreeBSD 12.1 doesn't have things like native ZFS encryption yet. The installer makes it really easy to get ZFS on root, with support for all the different possible configurations, and all the relevant tools know about ZFS, even the 'top' commando shows the memory usage of the ZFS ARC! Table of contents Being a first class citizen also means that the entire operating system is tailored to work really well with ZFS. This means that you don't have to worry about hostile kernel commits that suddenly breaks ZFS, or kernel modules that has to be re-compiled every time the kernel is updated. ZFS on Linux might get a lot of the latest features, and with a distribution like Arch Linux you have the bleeding edge, but it makes great sense to migrate everything ZFS related to FreeBSD. | about | faq | resources | contact | rss Migrating ZFS from Linux to FreeBSD
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