OpenSolaris partition mounting

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3674

Hi, ALL,
In order to mount OpenSolaris partition, do I need some additional packet, like Samba for smbfs/cifs?

I have a "UFS file system support" ON in my kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r5.

Thank you.

ppg · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:08 pm Post subject:

Since OpenSolaris uses ZFS as it default filesystem, you need to install a "ZFS utils" to mount your partition.
But because of there is no GPL implementation of ZFS you cannot just active support for it on your kernel, you will need to use Fuse and zfs-fuse to do that.

https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zfs-fuse/

ONEEYEMAN · Advocate Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 3674

Hi. ppg,
And how do I do it? Is there something in Portage or I will have to install something from sources?

Also, did I choose proper option in my kernel?

Thank you.

ppg · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject:

There is an ebuild for zfs-fuse in the main portage tree :

sys-fs/zfs-fuse

I didn't try to use zfs from Linux so I can't help you that much, but you might find some interesting documentation on the project wiki :

http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE

zfs implementation on fuse seems experimental and I think you should not use it for production/daily use purposes; or plain backups for your files.

Good luck :wink: