request: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT
Ivan Voras
ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 17 15:47:11 UTC 2009
Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>
>
> Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>> On 17/11/09 9:14 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Possibly freebsd-update should be maintained as part of the release
>> process and not by someone at arm's length to the re team. In recent
>> times it has broken rebooting after an update twice: once because of the
>> above issue, and earlier when updating from 7.2 to 8.0-beta it was
>> impossible to install a new kernel, reboot and then install world. This
>> wasn't a freebsd-update specific issue (there is an incompatibility
>> between new ZFS kernel modules and old userland tools), but it will bite
>> everyone using freebsd-update and ZFS.
>
> If we are talking about freebsd-update... It would be nice if
> freebsd-update leave old kernel available in /boot/ as with source
> upgrade (/boot/kernel.old) at least until second reboot (in case of
> upgrade), because if new kernel failed to boot after first reboot, then
> the machine become unbootable without some kind of LiveFS media.
Are you sure it still doesn't do that? I think I saw a recent patch that
leaves kernel.old somewhere...
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