disk questions: geom and zfs
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 9 10:32:07 UTC 2008
matheus at eternamente.info wrote:
> hail,
>
> I have a 7-stable:
>
> [matheus at 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 at 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.
Kris
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