From b5db8ef03bb749c70b4e313c72619502466afcfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Remko Lodder Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:44:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add missing information for geom_mirror metadata. PR: 124434 Submitted by: Philip M. Golluci MFC after: 3 days Prodded through: bugbusters@ --- UPDATING | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 90ebd13bdc72..d5b41dd4951f 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -412,6 +412,20 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW: are encouraged to use these devs instead of (old) "/dev/dsp%d.%d". This does not affect those who are using "/dev/dsp". +20061122: + geom(4)'s gmirror(8) class metadata structure has been + rev'd from v3 to v4. If you update across this point and + your metadata is converted for you, you will not be easily + able to downgrade since the /boot/kernel.old/geom_mirror.ko + kernel module will be unable to read the v4 metadata. You + can resolve this by doing from the loader(8) prompt: + + set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/XXX" + + where XXX is the root slice of one of the disks that composed + the mirror (i.e.: /dev/ad0s1a). You can can than rebuild + the array the same way you built it originally. + 20061122: The following binaries have been disconnected from the build: mount_devfs, mount_ext2fs, mount_fdescfs, mount_procfs, mount_linprocfs,