FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas.
For the most part, this was all what I did:
# freebsd-update -r 11.2-RELEASE upgrade
# freebsd-update install
# reboot
# freebsd-update install
After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool.
root@nas:~ # zpool status
pool: zroot
state: ONLINE
status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Jan 23 23:54:42 2018
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/zfs0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Let’s upgrade the zpool zroot as suggested:
root@nas:~ # zpool upgrade zroot
This system supports ZFS pool feature flags.
Enabled the following features on 'zroot':
device_removal
obsolete_counts
zpool_checkpoint
If you boot from pool 'zroot', don't forget to update boot code.
Assuming you use GPT partitioning and da0 is your boot disk
the following command will do it:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0
root@nas:~ #
Next is to update the boot code. If for whatever reason you’re following this step to update the zpool (zroot) on your FreeBSD, make sure you know what your boot disk is. In my case, it’s not da0. To find out, run the following command:
root@nas:~ # gpart show
=> 34 488397101 ada4 GPT (233G)
34 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1058 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
4195362 484201766 3 freebsd-zfs (231G)
488397128 7 - free - (3.5K)
From the above output, we can see the boot disk for my server is ada4, and the partition the boot sits on is ada4p1.
root@nas:~ # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada4
partcode written to ada4p1
bootcode written to ada4
To upgrade non-zroot zpool, just run zpool upgrade pool_name.
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