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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2017 20:03:21 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old snapshot install images?
Message-ID:  <D1E7B1C7-0590-4A21-AC8F-B711E2ADD6EC@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <FECE86AF-F1D0-4C64-AC2C-C8882A8D32EE@gmail.com>
References:  <20170502191531.GA10288@mail.michaelwlucas.com> <E3394CDC-4260-41E3-8C89-628F5132B08B@gmail.com> <20170503163424.GA18325@mail.michaelwlucas.com> <80F20120-06DF-4BC9-B317-F77B54512A8F@gmail.com> <20170503164150.GB18325@mail.michaelwlucas.com> <FECE86AF-F1D0-4C64-AC2C-C8882A8D32EE@gmail.com>

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> On 3. mai 2017, at 19:52, Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>> On May 3, 2017, at 09:41, Michael W. Lucas =
<mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 09:37:04AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) =
wrote:
>>> Ok. I was curious because there has been a period of time when =
512b/sector disks have been broken and vice versa.
>>>=20
>>> I=E2=80=99m going to operate under the impression that one of =
tsoome=E2=80=99s recent changes to zfsboot fixed things (there was some =
breakage over the past couple months based on posts to current@ and =
svn-src-*@), but I can=E2=80=99t count on it 100%.
>>=20
>>=20
>> The most recent installer snapshot has the exact same problem.
>>=20
>> Every installer snapshot on the FTP site has the exact same problem.
>>=20
>> I've gotten some installer snapshots from October and from
>> mid-2015. Trying those.
>>=20
>> My goal is to find out when the problem appeared and include the time
>> window in the PR.
>=20
> Ok. How big is your freebsd-boot partition?
> Thanks,
> -Ngie


There was many issues fixed step by step and some fixes for particular =
problem did reveal next one (at least in some systems), and indeed, it =
can cause some problems if you are caught in middle of updates. =46rom =
my point of view, the most important question is if the current =
=E2=80=9Ccurrent=E2=80=9D is ok:)

rgds,
toomas=



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