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I have a 6TB RaidZ ZFS array configured on my nv129 based OpenSolaris filer, and I want to upgrade to FreeNAS as painlessly as possible. I remember betas had warnings that they did not support existing ZFS pools - has this changed? I can't seem to find any official statement that this is possible, and I'd rather not risk my array if possible. I have backups, so I could start from scratch, I suppose, but I'd rather not. Thoughts? | |||
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I took a quick look at the latest FreeNAS release (version 8). They are only running something along the order of build/revision 129 of ZFS, where the more current versions are in the 134+ range. Long story short... FreeNAS will not import the later pools - especially when dedup is in the picture as their build/revision level is still pre-dedup. Major bummer! If the lack of dedup is not an issue, then you can setup FreeNAS in parallel and then copy the data over via FTP, CIFS, etc. There are a few options in how to copy things over, but no direct imports of the pools unless you happen to be running the same or lower level ZFS build/revision. | |||
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