Installing on zx6000

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:18:46AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:52:43AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Marcel,
> >>> 
> >>> I went for an easy option, and installed from 8.1-RELEASE DVD.
> >>> 
> >>> Now, can I hope to update to -current in one jump?
> >> 
> >> You should be able to, but make sure you have the latest loader
> >> in the EFI system partition. The 8.1 loader will not be able to
> >> boot a -current kernel.
> >> 
> >> As a precaution, you could create a new partition for the FreeBSD
> >> -current installation so that you preserve the FreeBSD 8.1 one.
> >> You can even leave the FreeBSD 8.1 loader on the system partition,
> >> though the latest loader should boot an old FreeBSD kernel just
> >> fine.
> > 
> > Marcel, a question about zfs.
> > On r238540 I get:
> > 
> > # dmesg|grep -i zfs
> > ZFS filesystem version: 5
> > ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000)
> > #
> > # zfs upgrade
> > This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 5.
> > 
> > All filesystems are formatted with the current version.
> > #
> > 
> > Is version 5 correct?
> > I was expecting version 28.
> > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> I belief there are 2 version:
> 1.  The ZFS file system version. This has always been 5 I belief.
> 2.  The ZFS pool version. This changed from 14, 28 to 5000 it seems.
> 
> The dmesg hints towards that as well:
> 
> 	ZFS filesystem version: 5
> 	ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000)
> 
> It seems that the zpool versioning changed a bit to allow for
> greater flexibility in what features are supported or not and
> not have it impact some version numbering.
> 
> HTH,

ok, I get it, thanks

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