Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:29:21 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: Andrew Moran <amoran@forsythia.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation? Message-ID: <AANLkTin2gSwVE2DeFLq73SE1ef4AYiG37o3hLcnHo54S@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86lj0j9cwd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <21D3DE2D-2C1E-4C7B-860E-C637C746150A@forsythia.net> <86lj0j9cwd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>wrote: > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Moran <amoran@forsythia.net> writes: > > Andrew> I switched my system over to using a ZFS on root setup in 8.1. > Andrew> I want to upgrade it to 8.2. > > Andrew> Is there any changes to the > Andrew> buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/installkernel/mergemaster > Andrew> routine? > > And for those of us using the binary upgrade, do I need to follow > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 > > still? Or do nothing? Or do something else? > Well those are his modified upgrade instructions, they seem relatively sound but the extra steps aren't required. The gpart stuff is to update the boot loader which is only necessary if you upgrade the file system or pool eg zfs/zpool upgrade. You should probably run this just to prevent potential severe pain later. And as it's said, the nextboot is there because he's running a custom kernel and wants to boot into GENERIC next time then later rebuilds his custom kernel. The short story is if you are running GENERIC anyway, a standard binary upgrade would work fine, but if you have taken a divergent path you'll have to account for those differences in your upgrade process. -- Adam Vande More
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