From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 31 23:23:24 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C9715CD for ; Sun, 31 May 2015 23:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x232.google.com (mail-ob0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EEEF1546 for ; Sun, 31 May 2015 23:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by obbea2 with SMTP id ea2so91795265obb.3 for ; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:23:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=jwKfF2oroIffySkRPlh7j/Fh/c+edtVfEczOLPncork=; b=a+YIRvt3+OKxx2F5dphEvQEigNbMHz8R95lQT03qIuEugPvO5eLsMk6+KIMAB5r34u nW4a63jZV5OP8zN0TIrlMLQulUny+qKM7bm3Bum9xwA+E4XyfTXqphijrvMhVXMo5hNj Ygi/wswr8jKQrSsQOakMHSuFmMOElpgzAwE5uDX/Ca+OpxON3CWuvOLBY1rIRVWRpnRS sKfiopTqDyP5ZtblbTZcJ00jteukMT4bIJ3GbNi2S1skeHrG3R0awrTF4A0VryySus1M utH3/aJx6KBVATj9HoHUcEZ62p1TQZ78BK9+hUySq/PCVjFNIrTYUYiLiWT/ASlED3dx eR7g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.158.138 with SMTP id wu10mr15913501obb.12.1433114603574; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.117.230 with HTTP; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:23:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20150531094127.2950a5ef@X220.alogt.com> <504e8235.5246d069@fabiankeil.de> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 19:23:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: how do I downgrade from 11-current to 10-stable From: Aryeh Friedman To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Fabian Keil , FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 23:23:24 -0000 On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Fabian Keil > > wrote: > > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 30 May 2015 05:52:56 -0400 > > > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > > > > My desktop machine is 11-current and I want to down grade it to > > > > 10-stable how do I do this without needing a reinstall? > > > > > > > > > > I did this several times from sources. Be aware of one problem which > > > could be fatal. If you created a encrypted partition with GELI and you > > > downgrade, the older version might not be able to handle the encryption > > > of the newer version. This is not mentioned in the documentation. > > > > The "[h]ighest GELI metadata version supported by the given > > FreeBSD version" is documented in geli(8)'s history section. > > > > Fabian > > > > Unfortunately the list ends at 9.0. It would be nice if it could be > updated. I might sift through SVN and see if I can put together a patch for > 10.2. It is quite likely that the version has not changed since 9.0. > Already done and no problem with NFS or fstab or any other disk related stuff (mergemaster -FUi does wonders) -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org