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Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:22:27 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Problematic upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 with ZFS file system
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90907201722vcff2ea4pb779da6e3524d175@mail.gmail.com>
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> My only suggestions are improving the freebsd-update tool (is Colin Percival
> reading this?) to give relevant feedback, moving UPDATING to somewhere
> useful for non-source updaters and ensuring the docs clearly state the
> seriousness of this particular issue.

When the import was done, there should have been a minimal compat
layer so that v6 tools wouldn't die when talking to a v13 system. It
is too late for 8.0 to do that, depending on time and complexity I'll
look in to doing that for 7.3.

At this juncture there isn't a convenient stop-gap. Given that there
is no central source to read for individuals updating. I think it
makes sense for freebsd-update to at the very least check if it is
installing on a system running ZFS v6. You'll need to talk to Colin
Percival about his availability to do that.


Cheers,
Kip



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