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Cc: Dillon Kass <lists@loveturtle.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: MFC ZFS: when?
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Wes Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Dillon Kass wrote:
> 
>> I'm very excited and can't wait! I have this clone I need to promote 
>> but I'm encountering this bug
>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6738349
>>
>> Hopefully it gets mfc before the diff between the real fs and the 
>> clone becomes so large that my pool fills up :-)
>> I should have a few months before that happens though.
> 
> Is it possible you could boot a -current system and promote the clone 
> without upgrading your pools/filesystems, then reboot to -stable?

The promotion is not backwards compatible.

Kris