Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:32:05 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: matheus@eternamente.info Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk questions: geom and zfs Message-ID: <487493A5.2010208@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2c7aa7cb6f8acbc18993b802bb3a5016.squirrel@cygnus>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
matheus@eternamente.info wrote: > hail, > > I have a 7-stable: > > [matheus@xxx /usr/home/matheus]$ uname -a > FreeBSD xxx 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Sun Jul 6 15:03:26 BRT 2008 > root@lamneth:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx_7 i386 > > and there exists three geom things. > > gconcat status > Name Status Components > concat/concat0 UP ad4 > ad5 > gmirror status > Name Status Components > mirror/mirror0 COMPLETE ad8s1 > ad10s1 > gstripe status > Name Status Components > stripe/stripe0 UP ad8s2 > ad10s2 > > and a small (100GB) zfs pool. > > the thing is, if I take all these disks to a 6.3R-p2 system, will I get in > trouble ? what if this 6.3R becomes 7-stable also, will this trouble > disappear ? I think it should just ignore the parts it can't recognise. I have a vague memory that something about the metadata format changed in one of the geom providers (mirror/stripe/something) so there might be a problem there. Try to research whether that is the case. In general you'll be better off if you just run it on 7.0 of course. Krishome | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?487493A5.2010208>