need help with ZFS

[Matt Simerson]

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.

Matt