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Old 07-06-2011, 02:26 AM   #1
panseluta
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Migrating from freenas to linux can it be done in vmware


Hello,

The server I'm working on has two 16TB virtual disks (raid10) and one 4TB virtual disk (raid10 too). I already formated two disks to ext3 (one 16TB and 4TB). I have one 16TB UFS file system which I can mount read only in linux but only able to access first 3 folders (containing 6TB of data). The other 3 folders (about another 6TB of data) I cannot access or see them except if I navigate with mc and there is a question mark in front of each one.

Is there's a limit of readable UFS data under linux?

I'm mounting using this command:

mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sda1 /home/ufsdisk

The next thing I'm thinking is to use vmware in linux and add the UFS partition inside vmware in freenas and transfer files from there. (in free nas I can access all folders)

Can it be done?
 
Old 07-06-2011, 08:44 PM   #2
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I would say why change? Freenas is based on Unix/BSD so I guess this is why you have this ufs format?

I think I'd go with a native ext3/4 or other linux native filesystem instead. It would allow you some more maintenance tools.

There used to be a lot of issues with unix file system support in linux but I'd guess that a modern 64 bit OS could support it but there are some problems still. Better to copy over in some bsd based to some native format.
 
Old 07-07-2011, 01:28 AM   #3
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That's my plan to format to ext3. But there's still the problem of the existing 12TB of data on the UFS partition and I have problems reading that data under Linux. In freenas it reads just fine.
 
  


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