ZFS hangs with 8.2-release

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Fri Dec 9 03:20:28 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:03:46PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> Upgrading is our intent...IF we stay with FreeBSD.  Thus my question
> about stability improvements in freebsd 9.
> 
> Which I guess you've answered; we'll give it a go.
> 
> thanks
> danno
> >Freddie Cash <mailto:fjwcash at gmail.com>
> >December 8, 2011 3:29 PM
> >
> >With a pool that big, you really should upgrade to 8-STABLE or
> >9-STABLE. Both of those support ZFSv28. You don't need to upgrade
> >the pool/filesystems to ZFSv28, but the new code is much more stable
> >and speedy. Plus, there are a lot of nice extra features in ZFSv28
> >compared to ZFSv15.

You don't have to go with FreeBSD 9.x to try and solve this problem.
You can simply upgrade to FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (you are running
8.2-RELEASE right now).  ZFS has improved/changed between those 8.2
"versions".

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