On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:17:01PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Why not?  :o)  As long as it can continue to access the XFS volume I 
> > have (for the month until my current backups would "time out"), I'm game.
> 
> I don't think that's possible - at least in a way that I'd trust.  You'd 
> need to run solaris, opensolaris, or freebsd for zfs and I don't think 
> they do xfs natively.  There'd be some chance of running one or the 
> other under VMware server or virtualbox with native access to the device 
> (assuming both have drivers and they don't conflict), but even that 
> sounds risky.

for the record, supposedly freebsd can read XFS:

http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/

i'd keep my linux installation running, though.  

danno
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