On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:54:36AM +0300, Rechistov Grigory (Речистов Григорий) wrote: > I started to check the new ZFS version inside a VirtualBox machine. So far > it works for me without crashes, but I got some observations worth > mentioning. Here are the steps I made: > > 1. Installed 8.1-RELEASE (from minimal install CD) > 2. Csup'ped sources to CURRENT (as of 14/12/2010) [note that I haven't > used SVN repository] > 3. Applied the patch in question. > 4. Created a zpool raidz of two disks of old version 15. Also some usual > tuning of ZFS in loader.conf was done as I am running 32 bit version with > low amount of memory. "zfs_enable=YES" in rc.conf was added too. > 4.1 Moved /usr/ports to ZFS to have some files on it. > 5. Make buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld - all the > canonical steps from the Handbook. > 6. After reboot to final 9.0-CURRENT world I got a dmesg with some trace > stack related to ZFS and also a rc.d script message about unrecognized > command 'volinit' (see the text of it in attachment). This one is because mergemaster(8) skips files with the same $FreeBSD$ value, so you need to copy /usr/src/etc/rc.d/zvol to /etc/rc.d/ by hand. > 7. Nevertheless the system booted. Files > 8. `zpool upgrade -a` worked all right and reported that now I have ZFS > version 28 > > Overall I am pleasantly surprised how streamlined the whole process was. That's good to hear, thanks. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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