ZFS going forward, on stable/13 vs. main: question

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:21:28 -0700
Context . . .

I've been experimenting with ZFS and bectl use recently.
It has been many years since I last used ZFS --and that
was only a short experiment that did not have to deal
with upgrades over time.

I now have:

# bectl list 
BE               Active Mountpoint Space Created
13S-CA72-nodbg   N      /          4.02G 2021-04-27 18:55
13_0R-CA72-nodbg R      -          8.49G 2021-04-28 10:48
main-CA72-nodbg  -      -          3.24G 2021-04-30 13:25

(so a stable/13 vintage , releng/13.0 as of release/13.0.0 ,
and a main vintage for what things are based on). That is
via:

zroot/ROOT/13S-CA72-nodbg                          1.60G   131G     4.10G  /
zroot/ROOT/13_0R-CA72-nodbg                        8.49G   131G     4.59G  /
zroot/ROOT/main-CA72-nodbg                         1.77G   131G     4.63G  /

For reference: the context is simple in various
other respects:

# gpart show
=>       40  468862048  da0  GPT  (224G)
         40     532480    1  efi  (260M)
     532520       2008       - free -  (1.0M)
     534528   25165824    2  freebsd-swap  (12G)
   25700352   25165824    4  freebsd-swap  (12G)
   50866176  417994752    3  freebsd-zfs  (199G)
  468860928       1160       - free -  (580K)

The USB SSD is used to boot and use any of (all
aarch64):

An OverDrive 1000
A MACCHIATObin Double Shot
Various RPi4B's with 8 GiBytes RAM
Potentially various RPI4B's with 4 GiBytes RAM.


Question . . .

Are there any potential future upgrade issues with main
[so: 14] vs. stable/13 and releng/13.0 , say by main
updates involving ZFS updates in a way stable/13 or the
recent releng/13.* might not handle?

The implication would be that such a mix of boot
environments on the same zpool or media might not
be a good idea over time: main might be better
separated so the ZFS versioning is independent
between 13 and 14.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)
Received on Fri Apr 30 2021 - 21:21:32 UTC

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