freebsd-update, ZFS, and ver 8.2

Matthew Seaman matthew at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 15 13:53:21 UTC 2015


On 12/15/15 12:24, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 Dec 2015 08:41:55 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
>> There's more to do to fully update ZFS after this.  ZFS has a number of
>> new features that are available in 10.x which you can use 'zpool
>> upgrade' to enable.
> 
> As I understand it, upgrading the zpool would prevent you from reverting to 
> the earlier 8.2 or 9.0 boot environments. In which case I expect it would be 
> safer to avoid the "zpool upgrade" step until you're happy with the 10.2 
> system.

That's certainly true.  Rewriting the boot blocks won't prevent you from
going back to 8.x but updating the zpool certainly will.  So, yes, don't
do this step until you're happy that 10.2 is working properly and
there's no need to revert.

	Cheers,

	Matthew




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