From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 30 11:03:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B89F80F for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vusa@tuxsystems.co.za) Received: from MOY07-NIX1.wadns.net (moy07-nix1.wadns.net [41.185.26.137]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9085026ED for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by MOY07-NIX1.wadns.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F942245A for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:56:30 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at doggle.co.za Received: from MOY07-NIX1.wadns.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (MOY07-NIX1.wadns.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OsSUHBYH75Lc for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:56:21 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.88.103] (105-208-135-83.access.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.208.135.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by MOY07-NIX1.wadns.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BCE322432 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:56:19 +0200 (SAST) From: Vusa Moyo Subject: zpool upgrade and lz4 compression. Message-Id: Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:56:10 +0200 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.0 \(1816\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1816) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:03:35 -0000 Greetings all.=20 I=92ve upgraded 2 FreeBSD 9.0 servers to 9.2=20 FreeBSD qaMKSYSB01.sars.gov.za 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 = r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013 = root@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 ..using the exact same procedure.=20 On Server 1, I successfully managed to upgrade the zpool=92s to the = version that supports lz4 compression. On Server 2, I do not have the option to upgrade the version of zfs.=20 [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]# zfs upgrade This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 5. All filesystems are formatted with the current version. [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]# zfs upgrade -v The following filesystem versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION --- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Initial ZFS filesystem version 2 Enhanced directory entries 3 Case insensitive and File system unique identifier (FUID) 4 userquota, groupquota properties 5 System attributes For more information on a particular version, including supported = releases, see the ZFS Administration Guide. [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]# zpool upgrade -v This system is currently running ZFS pool version 28. The following versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION --- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Initial ZFS version 2 Ditto blocks (replicated metadata) 3 Hot spares and double parity RAID-Z 4 zpool history 5 Compression using the gzip algorithm 6 bootfs pool property 7 Separate intent log devices 8 Delegated administration 9 refquota and refreservation properties 10 Cache devices 11 Improved scrub performance 12 Snapshot properties 13 snapused property 14 passthrough-x aclinherit 15 user/group space accounting 16 stmf property support 17 Triple-parity RAID-Z 18 Snapshot user holds 19 Log device removal 20 Compression using zle (zero-length encoding) 21 Deduplication 22 Received properties 23 Slim ZIL 24 System attributes 25 Improved scrub stats 26 Improved snapshot deletion performance 27 Improved snapshot creation performance 28 Multiple vdev replacements For more information on a particular version, including supported = releases, see the ZFS Administration Guide. [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]# zpool upgrade =20 This system is currently running ZFS pool version 28. All pools are formatted using this version. [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]#=20 I think the problem may lie in the=20 freebsd-update fetch=20 program.=20 [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... = done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have been downloaded because the files have been modified locally: /var/db/mergemaster.mtree No updates needed to update system to 9.2-RELEASE-p1. [root@qaMKSYSB02 ~]#=20 mergemaster.mtree is not something I would have touched.=20 Any help to resolve the issue will be highly appreciated.=20 Regards Vusa