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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:36:26 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?
Message-ID:  <86hbb2x68l.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <864o76abzp.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:31:38 -0700")
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>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> OK, so I'll appeal to the rest of freebsd-questions, since you can't
Randal> answer with authority:

Randal>     can you upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using freebsd-update booting from
Randal>     ZFS as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/,
Randal>     without having to go through the chicanry described at
Randal>     http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 - or is
Randal>     there an updated version of that post, or should that post be
Randal>     literally followed?

Randal> SOMEONE here knows.  Please help.

So, nobody knows?

Most of the other answers were about a source-code upgrade, not a
binary upgrade.

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