Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Mar 16 18:36:28 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> OK, so I'll appeal to the rest of freebsd-questions, since you can't
Randal> answer with authority:

Randal>     can you upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using freebsd-update booting from
Randal>     ZFS as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/,
Randal>     without having to go through the chicanry described at
Randal>     http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 - or is
Randal>     there an updated version of that post, or should that post be
Randal>     literally followed?

Randal> SOMEONE here knows.  Please help.

So, nobody knows?

Most of the other answers were about a source-code upgrade, not a
binary upgrade.

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