From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 14:45:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0CE106566C for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from postfix_amaru@yahoo.com) Received: from n12.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n12.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [74.6.228.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A75E98FC18 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [76.13.12.67] by n12.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2010 14:33:15 -0000 Received: from [74.6.228.80] by t8.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2010 14:33:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1001.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2010 14:33:15 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 78285.65902.bm@omp1001.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 63551 invoked by uid 60001); 19 May 2010 14:33:14 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1274279594; bh=aPnm6T73LY/zMMNUTDvG1nHFyGjsSzbwYmKY/XNOfY4=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=UeG2NzEjvlexLWetfEa2R87Pa3t0eQFNGhLRcR4o476GH93mDoJlsc5sNgi0xDfoOJwZkYWBRywIng3xqJbyp/vVhcoBehqDVSMDuN13lR2ezZSt5I0p8UCCS93ZOO5spArReo5aK59W8je24pkZagIzjk2pSQ1nLzspVf7J0Y8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=wXKrqnDk1dZ2WoK1OLFb3F9mVElqTIt4vk2E24HYgKWJD2gdGZCqe2AlNkzWug7ldMuY1jSXG62DyDlj0vHVWXyaKV8uB3nTo8dsBnqTjyJzn2Aw1u9FUrX8cH64xucU60UWEztjgnbnuo9i+gKqbXHb5fEopjEDkavKpnEVYEA=; Message-ID: <461532.61991.qm@web59507.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: peCHA2kVM1kxXx_yZQCHOaTkS3Io8MA8t7t34.17Z3_0hxV gxM5QA9YhyvxfdPdkHHXOyqolDSPsoKM2qLaqZcv7eaGYXnPF.N1D3MUxYqG g01B6BeXd6BrUm8duf9KIBpxWjmBHEgzvcAIYLy6ACIjHk6TXhkrO_Q0Jk3t 6Avv4YAtT4EnrHvNAXiJjpNUKo2w6qI6G6gV9PQFojB_mrXVNIrPvEb_HtSn vEKU- Received: from [134.29.200.234] by web59507.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 19 May 2010 07:33:14 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/374.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:33:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Amaru Netapshaak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:47 -0000 Hi! I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386 to 8.0-REL-amd64 in the near future. My OS drive is a single ata-133 80gb drive, and my data drives are four 1.5TB SATA drives. 6TB total, configured as 2x 3TB 'gstripe' volumes, and I am using gmirror to mirror those gstripe volumes. I hope that makes sense. In any case, I'd like to just unplug the drives, do my upgrade, plug the drives back in, and startup the array as I have in 7.0. I'm planning to just do a fresh install of 8.0 on a new SATA 80GB drive and make that my new OS drive. Does anyone foresee any serious problems with this plan? I know doing a whole version upgrade can sometimes introduce bugs when dealing with old setups, so I just want to cover my bases prior to the work. I am backing up this system to another system, so if I end up losing the data or having to rebuild the array, that's fine, it just sucks having to copy the 2TB of data over the wire afterward. Thanks for your help! ++AMARU