Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:37:21 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: Getting ZFS pools back. Message-ID: <ba09d5bd-28ce-a7c3-2781-19a2f8409dfa@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <31f9e4cd-4865-651a-0966-4600101beb8f@digiware.nl> References: <5f836c79-b379-f066-689b-1645e393c5e9@digiware.nl> <E3B39DFA-269A-4041-922E-38F0CF35CB9A@gentoo.org> <a7fb7ffc-fa5f-4031-c78a-20e7ba618566@digiware.nl> <CAOtMX2gpuc0ntoxqKJv3iw3x_Dcq99zpcmqE8g%2B2QiDtYPHmZQ@mail.gmail.com> <1645b168-4133-693c-2dd3-8e0606abb9c3@digiware.nl> <07576f68-f67e-3a22-7a50-ff261c9b3fff@digitaldaemon.com> <31f9e4cd-4865-651a-0966-4600101beb8f@digiware.nl>
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On 04/29/2018 14:32, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 29/04/2018 19:57, Jan Knepper wrote: >> On 04/29/2018 13:27, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >>> Trouble started when I installed (freebsd-update) 11.1 over a >>> running 10.4. Which is sort of scarry? >> This does sounds 'scary' as I am planning to do this in the (near) >> future... >> >> Has anyone else experienced issues like this? >> >> Generally I do build the new system software on a running system, but >> then go to single user mode to perform the actual install. >> >> I have done many upgrades like that over 18 or so years and never >> seen or heard of an issue alike this. > > Most of my upgrades went smooth, other than being pestered by files > that are only changed in verssion no and/or comments. Yeah... Know about those... mergemaster has a option to elevate some of that pain though... > This is a rather old server that I installed zfs-on-root, when there > were only howtos and no automagic installers. So I guess that it might > even be from the 9.x days. It went through several manual upgrades and > at least once a online disk replacement with growing disks (500G to 4T). > Al that went well, but could very well be that some odd bits and pieces > were (missing) left overs. OK... That might explain a thing or two... I do recall installing 9.x I think on a new server (hardware) and having to do the ZFS setup manually... Everything currently runs 10.x > So Don't excluded that there is pilot error involved. > I tried Google to find more about fixing the system when this error > got reported, but only a rather hefty session with Andriy Gapon, I think. > And that was for 9.x or so. > Nothing else... > > So given my need to go on, I just reinstalled. OK! Thank you for letting me know! ManiaC++ Jan Knepper
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