Making ZFS work on removable media
I’ve been playing around with ZFS for quite a while now and I’m very impressed. Everything that’s claimed of it holds up under my limited investigation. I’ve been working with both the OpenSolaris native version (thank you Nexenta!) and the ZFS-FUSE implementation for Linux. The one thing that proved hard to do was to build a ZFS pool on my USB2 hard drive and move that pool between machines. For a couple of days I struggled in vain to see why I couldn’t ZFS export from my linux box and ZFS import on my OpenSolaris box (or visa versa)....