Next ZFSv28 patchset ready for testing.

[Olivier Smedts]

2010/12/16 Rechistov Grigory (Речистов Григорий) <ggg_mail at inbox.ru>:
> I started to check the new ZFS version inside a VirtualBox machine. So far
> it works for me without crashes, but I got some observations worth
> mentioning. Here are the steps I made:
>
> 1. Installed 8.1-RELEASE (from minimal install  CD)
> 2. Csup'ped sources to CURRENT (as of 14/12/2010) [note that I haven't used
> SVN repository]
> 3. Applied the patch in question.
> 4. Created a zpool raidz of two disks of old  version 15. Also some usual
> tuning of ZFS in loader.conf was done as I am running 32 bit version with
> low amount of memory.  "zfs_enable=YES" in rc.conf was added too.
> 4.1 Moved /usr/ports to ZFS to have some files on it.
> 5. Make buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld - all the
> canonical steps from the Handbook.
> 6. After reboot to final 9.0-CURRENT world I got a dmesg with some trace
> stack related to ZFS and also a rc.d script message about unrecognized
> command 'volinit' (see the text of it in attachment).

Did you run mergemaster correctly ?

> 7. Nevertheless the system booted. Files
> 8. `zpool upgrade -a` worked all right and reported that now I have ZFS
> version 28
>
> Overall I am pleasantly surprised how streamlined the whole process was.
>
> I am going to perform more tourturing of this VM later as well.
>
> Thanks for your work!
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