Can you migrate UFS to ZFS ?

wjones · December 31, 2008, 5:53am

I have some UFS volumes (non root), that I would like to change into ZFS volumes.

Is this possible ?

I think the only method is to create a new zfs volume and copy the data accoss, this would take a long time for us. Is there a quicker way ?

Regards

reborg · December 31, 2008, 8:46am

No, there is no conversion. Your existing idea is the only way to do this.

stevie_velvet · January 5, 2009, 7:24pm

FYI
UFS-> ZFS is on the Roadmap & You can now create root ZFS with S10U8

ms.s

reborg · January 5, 2009, 8:04pm

No it isn't. Migrating from root on UFS to root on ZFS is but conversion of existing filesystems is not.

stevie_velvet · January 8, 2009, 5:10am

This is information from a blog on blogs.sun.com

ms.stev

jlliagre · January 8, 2009, 8:01am

Can you post a link to that blog ?
I suspect you misunderstood its content. That would be a quite complicated process to implement with little value.
A UFS file system is located on a slice while a ZFS file system is located on a ZFS pool. The same storage area can hardly be both at the same time.