From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 14:30:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D931065674 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212018FC15 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SrVGa-0003Lm-MN; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:30:16 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SrVGZ-0002iA-Q6; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:30:16 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q6IEUFoo073202; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:30:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q6IEUFQx073201; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:30:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bris.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bris.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:30:15 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20120718143015.GB73151@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Marcel Moolenaar , Anton Shterenlikht , Mike Burrell , freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org References: <4FE38863.9020303@wizardlike.ca> <1817B805-693A-4635-9506-EBD8F90C1166@xcllnt.net> <20120702124138.GB36368@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <14CF4E3A-17A4-466D-A1BB-A080616B35DD@xcllnt.net> <20120703112755.GA39761@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120715162848.GA23384@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <12399EEC-E7D2-415C-96EE-102DDA5A4866@xcllnt.net> <20120718113007.GB72626@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <1ACE65EC-6D07-43F6-AE9D-EE3635D524C2@xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ACE65EC-6D07-43F6-AE9D-EE3635D524C2@xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on zx6000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:30:19 -0000 On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:18:46AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:52:43AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> > >>> Marcel, > >>> > >>> I went for an easy option, and installed from 8.1-RELEASE DVD. > >>> > >>> Now, can I hope to update to -current in one jump? > >> > >> You should be able to, but make sure you have the latest loader > >> in the EFI system partition. The 8.1 loader will not be able to > >> boot a -current kernel. > >> > >> As a precaution, you could create a new partition for the FreeBSD > >> -current installation so that you preserve the FreeBSD 8.1 one. > >> You can even leave the FreeBSD 8.1 loader on the system partition, > >> though the latest loader should boot an old FreeBSD kernel just > >> fine. > > > > Marcel, a question about zfs. > > On r238540 I get: > > > > # dmesg|grep -i zfs > > ZFS filesystem version: 5 > > ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000) > > # > > # zfs upgrade > > This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 5. > > > > All filesystems are formatted with the current version. > > # > > > > Is version 5 correct? > > I was expecting version 28. > > Or am I misunderstanding something? > > I belief there are 2 version: > 1. The ZFS file system version. This has always been 5 I belief. > 2. The ZFS pool version. This changed from 14, 28 to 5000 it seems. > > The dmesg hints towards that as well: > > ZFS filesystem version: 5 > ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000) > > It seems that the zpool versioning changed a bit to allow for > greater flexibility in what features are supported or not and > not have it impact some version numbering. > > HTH, ok, I get it, thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423