From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 11:37:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667D1106564A for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3418FC08 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout07 with smtp id MPdl1i008516WCc01PdmrS; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:46 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KLrY/S5o c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=YBe4BTGXXIYA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=Ki5nHXeMAAAA:8 a=LBVZlFlevYG70z-2zvYA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Rm1vd-0001Je-2w; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:45 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4F1034AB.903@nagual.nl> <20120113150041.6e828706.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F11570E.4070902@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4F11570E.4070902@nagual.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201201141137.44893.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:37:49 -0000 On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to > hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such > a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck with a system > that won't boot again because something goes wrong with zfs. Have you considerd using manageBE ? With this tool you can set up cloned alternative Boot-Environments (BE) so that you can go back to your old BE if the new one doesn't work. I'm in the process of upgrading to 9.0 and taking the opportunity of changing over to ZFS. I needed to re-arrange my filesystem structure to boot from tank/ROOT/someBEname/ instead of tank/ (and make sure the mountpoints of any descendent file systems are suitably adjusted) but it was worth the effort. I installed 9.0-RC2 from the ISO onto a spare drive so I haven't done an 8 to 9 binary upgrade but I have used freebsd-update to upgrade from 9.0-RC2 to 9.0-RELEASE and that went through without any problems. -- Mike Clarke