From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 15 08:42:05 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC61A44964 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EDE51509 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id tBF8fuK4092270 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:41:56 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk tBF8fuK4092270 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/tBF8fuK4092270; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6] claimed to be liminal.local Subject: Re: freebsd-update, ZFS, and ver 8.2 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20151214194012.M53329@brightstar.bomgardner.net> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <566FD253.5090906@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:41:55 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E7L1AO9BraasWB5T9fINuh5npXEeh06VH" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.7 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:42:05 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --E7L1AO9BraasWB5T9fINuh5npXEeh06VH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 15/12/2015 08:10, krad wrote: > I would use boot environments if you are zfs root so you can fail back > easily. I would also use a src build as that will definitely work. >=20 > eg >=20 > beadmn create -e old_root new_root > beadmn mount new_root /mnt > export DESTDIR=3D/mnt > cd /usr/src > make -j 12 buildworld && > make -j 12 buildkernel && > make installworld && > make installkernel && > mergemaster && > beadmn umount new_root && > beadmn activate new_root >=20 > later on init 6 There's more to do to fully update ZFS after this. ZFS has a number of new features that are available in 10.x which you can use 'zpool upgrade' to enable. When you do that, it will tell you to update the boot blocks using 'gpart bootcode ....' It is vitally important you do that, or you can render your system unbootable. Cheers, Matthew --E7L1AO9BraasWB5T9fINuh5npXEeh06VH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWb9JTXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATynMP/0jecHxT/7qek3KsCd22JJfO qhyBizQSTxWeS6xhoN4BdNUo+aWLjxCKZHoWnuQDJlTIscAMWu97Vg+GDw3Kb8D/ zC4U1uUaRQZ26qxthn0ERQu4WNzdQY6D1qSW6jr8pTznz6qZLJ4bKrH6wgRE88ld MEu8sP5KNFhQM4yBm1jJ6Dh9SwXxthwuLvvNcuWZKldutQ0QzPg6duSAtVIR/B8r 4bZaCkCaPgf3jgD4+EhE8kHLs6yswZL5q81qWzQlKsswAi9Y4prqwjkXBiH17RL3 fgWfB5AjhEkMFnKK7TEC/jVyIP6J0/EbCufcBX3NGgf5KIYLeGxGYuoUOinAGA9b jl2InizVQd0XrtA/8ZQeZhovxCf4as7x2Z4rETfOhgj/oZYV3aRQ0qUYn+fRevbX QX1LCy9uuau/Hv6VAZuuh3yn+POtYwLJeKQxMayn0ZPatbXnqLvC5eLdv0P7Nno2 /Dp2TylSQ4IrEpNTyCtujC8UnyqXmKbNBRp5zYjFnpG67pVCOfiDSTVm98hmLqmS O+KMdUXoLutfOZBNXEeDqgdrFYKOxQm+B5KgF1J5pVixlejcytwYFaaZAtFC3F1i FbxSIiRgrWr7PIa1OMJoDILJsRsDkIlyc6BLH5O0Yda69RDRWqvE28E3vTo5O9LR inc3+QlHkCPwWuA9fAHE =20hD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E7L1AO9BraasWB5T9fINuh5npXEeh06VH--