From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 03:20:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C714B106564A for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 03:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7FF8FC15 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 03:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6r8d1i0070FhH24AArLM2X; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:20:21 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6rKQ1i00H1t3BNj8UrKQhY; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:19:25 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6A02102C1D; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:20:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:20:26 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dan Pritts Message-ID: <20111209032026.GA93676@icarus.home.lan> References: <4EE118C7.8030803@internet2.edu> <4EE12632.4070309@internet2.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EE12632.4070309@internet2.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS hangs with 8.2-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:20:28 -0000 On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:03:46PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote: > Upgrading is our intent...IF we stay with FreeBSD. Thus my question > about stability improvements in freebsd 9. > > Which I guess you've answered; we'll give it a go. > > thanks > danno > >Freddie Cash > >December 8, 2011 3:29 PM > > > >With a pool that big, you really should upgrade to 8-STABLE or > >9-STABLE. Both of those support ZFSv28. You don't need to upgrade > >the pool/filesystems to ZFSv28, but the new code is much more stable > >and speedy. Plus, there are a lot of nice extra features in ZFSv28 > >compared to ZFSv15. You don't have to go with FreeBSD 9.x to try and solve this problem. You can simply upgrade to FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (you are running 8.2-RELEASE right now). ZFS has improved/changed between those 8.2 "versions". -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |