need help with ZFS

[Olivier Smedts]

2009/8/24 Matt Simerson <matt at corp.spry.com>:
>
> On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Mikhail (Plus Plus) wrote:
>
>> Panagiotis Christias wrote:
>>>
>>> I would suggest you try FreeBSD 8.0 that includes the latest version of
>>> ZFS (version 13), which fixed several problems present in 7.x. Then,
>>> check for crash dumps (see dumpon(8)), collect any available info and
>>> sent it to the list.
>
> I second this recommendation. The ZFS code in 8.0 is considerably more
> stable than what's currently in 7.2-STABLE.
>
>> Does that mean I will have to format my current zpool in order to
>> "upgrade" to ZFS v13? And if it is true then another problem is that I have
>> to backup current data somewhere before I'll be able to format zpool to new
>> version, but I cannot do this because server simply crashes every time I try
>> to copy that much of data to another hdd.
>
> Not at all. Simply install 8.0 and do a zpool upgrade.

And don't forget to zfs upgrade after the zpool upgrade !

>
> Matt
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