ZFS On Linux

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> Has anyone here got any experience with ZFS On Linux? I need to 
>occasionally mount, read and write a disk that will primarily be in a
FreeBSD system.


I use ZOL on Ubuntu Server and it works very well, however, I use it for
several large raidz2 arrays and one mirror. I'm not sure it has an advantage
used on a single disk. 

There are no other file systems on the arrays. For example, they aren't
formatted with ext4 or anything other than ZFS. I share them using samba,
and copy files to them with rsync. I also store VM files on them for
machines running in qemu-kvm. 

FreeBSD file systems do seem a bit strange, and I'm not sure a FreeBSD drive
can be mounted on an Ubuntu system. (haven't had the need to try very often)


So, ZOL might be an alternative, but it might not be seamless. You might
have to issue zfs commands to import or mount the drive each time you attach
it.

Hopefully, others on the list have more experience.