From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 22:28:59 2011 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 9ACAE106566B for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:28:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from mail.mroute.net (lax-gw02.mailroute.net [199.89.0.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2C58FC0C for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB091DEFD4; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:28:58 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4461D1DEFD8; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:28:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3653D3900; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Matthew Seaman References: <21D3DE2D-2C1E-4C7B-860E-C637C746150A@forsythia.net> <86lj0j9cwd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86hbb6aply.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <78E237A573166F9C62551A78@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <864o76abzp.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86hbb2x68l.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86ipviviy6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4D8136E8.2050106@infracaninophile.co.uk> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.3.14; tzolkin = 8 Ix; haab = 7 Cumku Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:28:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4D8136E8.2050106@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:17:12 +0000") Message-ID: <868vwevgwn.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation? 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, 16 Mar 2011 22:28:59 -0000 >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> Gee. Thanks. Well, either you're not describing your actual experience, or I've misunderstood. I'm open to input. Are you trying to tell me that you were able to go from 8.0 to 8.1, using freebsd-update, with a ZFS-on-root boot? Or were you just saying "well, it *should* work", because it my experience it didn't. Matthew> I suggest you try out your update in a VM then, because I doubt anyone Matthew> will produce an answer definitive enough for you. Sure they can. I want someone who actually hacks the ZFS boot code to help me out. How do I reach them? Is ZFS a first-class FS now in the binary builds, or not? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion