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I have a Linux server running libvirt + KVM which I am thinking of migrating to SmartOS. The server has a ZFS pool created with ZFS on Linux, where the KVM guests are stored (as ZVOLs). My question is, can this pool be usable by SmartOS?

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Yes.

ZFS zpools are pretty portable... In your case, you'll want to make sure that the ZFS version on the destination system is greater-than or equal to the version of the system you're migrating from.

Of course, we're missing that information from your question...

You'll want to run zpool upgrade -v to obtain your version information.

See Oracle's documentation and the ZFS version Wikipedia page.

These days, SmartOS is at version 28 with feature flags.

Also see: Can I trust that ZFS is consistent between Linux and FreeBSD?

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  • Thanks a lot for the answer and the links. Looks like my ZFS pool is also at version 28 with feature flags :) – sayap Apr 01 '13 at 06:05