Re: Installing on zx6000
Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:18:46AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:30 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:52:43AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> > >>> Marcel, > >>> > >>> I went for an easy option, and installed from 8.1-RELEASE DVD. > >>> > >>> Now, can I hope to update to -current in one jump? > >> > >> You should be able to, but make sure you have the latest loader > >> in the EFI system partition. The 8.1 loader will not be able to > >> boot a -current kernel. > >> > >> As a precaution, you could create a new partition for the FreeBSD > >> -current installation so that you preserve the FreeBSD 8.1 one. > >> You can even leave the FreeBSD 8.1 loader on the system partition, > >> though the latest loader should boot an old FreeBSD kernel just > >> fine. > > > > Marcel, a question about zfs. > > On r238540 I get: > > > > # dmesg|grep -i zfs > > ZFS filesystem version: 5 > > ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000) > > # > > # zfs upgrade > > This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 5. > > > > All filesystems are formatted with the current version. > > # > > > > Is version 5 correct? > > I was expecting version 28. > > Or am I misunderstanding something? > > I belief there are 2 version: > 1. The ZFS file system version. This has always been 5 I belief. > 2. The ZFS pool version. This changed from 14, 28 to 5000 it seems. > > The dmesg hints towards that as well: > > ZFS filesystem version: 5 > ZFS storage pool version: features support (5000) > > It seems that the zpool versioning changed a bit to allow for > greater flexibility in what features are supported or not and > not have it impact some version numbering. > > HTH, ok, I get it, thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"