From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Sun Apr 29 18:37:26 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45084FB4A58 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [162.217.114.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A915171975 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: (qmail 29312 invoked by uid 89); 29 Apr 2018 18:37:21 -0000 Received: from c-24-0-179-87.hsd1.nj.comcast.net (HELO iMac.local) (jan@digitaldaemon.com@24.0.179.87) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2018 18:37:21 -0000 Subject: Re: Getting ZFS pools back. To: Willem Jan Withagen , Alan Somers Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems , FreeBSD Hackers , Richard Yao References: <5f836c79-b379-f066-689b-1645e393c5e9@digiware.nl> <1645b168-4133-693c-2dd3-8e0606abb9c3@digiware.nl> <07576f68-f67e-3a22-7a50-ff261c9b3fff@digitaldaemon.com> <31f9e4cd-4865-651a-0966-4600101beb8f@digiware.nl> From: Jan Knepper Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:37:21 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <31f9e4cd-4865-651a-0966-4600101beb8f@digiware.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:37:26 -0000 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