Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:04:20 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 Message-ID: <4F116F44.80901@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <201201141137.44893.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <4F1034AB.903@nagual.nl> <20120113150041.6e828706.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F11570E.4070902@nagual.nl> <201201141137.44893.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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Op 14-1-2012 12:37, Mike Clarke schreef: > On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to >> hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such >> a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck with a system >> that won't boot again because something goes wrong with zfs. > Have you considerd using manageBE > <http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE>? With > this tool you can set up cloned alternative Boot-Environments (BE) so > that you can go back to your old BE if the new one doesn't work. I had not heard of this project before. Sounds very nice if it works. Manging BE's is one of the main things I miss in the FreeBSD ZFS support. Coming from (open)Solaris this was quite a disappointment. BE's rock!
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