Migrating from FreeNAS to Nexenta
Added by Adam Lorant about 1 year ago
I have been using FreeNAS for close to a year and decided to move to Nexenta. For some reason, I cannot import the zpool into Nexenta. I am running current releases of both products on AMD64 hardware. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!
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RE: Migrating from FreeNAS to Nexenta - Added by Dan Swartzendruber about 1 year ago
My best guess? You formatted the devices in the zpool with gpt not geom. If so, you need to copy the data off and reformat.
RE: Migrating from FreeNAS to Nexenta - Added by Ryan W about 1 year ago
AFAIK you cannot due to the way FreeNAS partitions the disks, versus how Nexenta/OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris would have.
This totally wrecks the idea behind the portability behind ZFS... but that's another subject.
RE: Migrating from FreeNAS to Nexenta - Added by Adam Lorant about 1 year ago
OK. Sounds like I need to back up my FreeNAS first (which I'm embarrassed to admit is way out of date), then reformat the disks before I reload the files. Thanks.