I've been playing with ZFS on a couple of USB sticks. So far I'm impressed! It seems nearly impossible to destroy your data. The order plugging in the sticks didn't matter. Yanking them out (well, not all of them at once, off course) still left the data readable. And restoring the zpool afterwards was easy enough. So I think about building a ZFS zpool from a couple of USB-HDD's. USB sticks have proven to work reliable with ZFS, so should USB HDD's.
There is however one problem. When I normally format a USB HDD, I can mount it on any computer that can handle the used filesystem. I was wondering if a zpool would do the same. So I created a zpool with two USB sticks, created a zfs partition on it, and put some textfile on it. I powered down the system, unplugged the sticks and plugged them in another FreeBSD system. To my surpise zpool status -v didn't see any zpools.
Is it possible to move a zpool to another computer? If so, how?
There is however one problem. When I normally format a USB HDD, I can mount it on any computer that can handle the used filesystem. I was wondering if a zpool would do the same. So I created a zpool with two USB sticks, created a zfs partition on it, and put some textfile on it. I powered down the system, unplugged the sticks and plugged them in another FreeBSD system. To my surpise zpool status -v didn't see any zpools.
Is it possible to move a zpool to another computer? If so, how?