Note for those pulling in new ZFS feature flags

Chris Nehren cnehren+freebsd-stable at pobox.com
Mon Apr 7 14:55:15 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 15:36:21 +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> > I solved this by re-running `gpart bootcode` for the afflicted
> > drives.  This was a bit trying, though, as my workstation is the
> > only FreeBSD machine I have readily available.  So, for those
> > upgrading their zpools, be careful and remember to fix the
> > bootcode if you're using ZFS for the root filesystem.
> 
> ISTR that "zpool upgrade" will also remind you to do this if bootfs is
> true for the pool you upgraded.
> 
> Also, it is always worth having around a bootable memstick available
> with the zfs code you are actually running in order to use as a
> recovery disk in circumstances like this.

I'm fairly certain there was no such message, or I would have
dutifully done what it said.  I definitely do know there is a
message of that kind when attaching a disk to a mirror, and I've
followed through there without issue.

-- 
Chris Nehren
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