As far as I've seen, iX are no closer to figuring out why this is happening than they were when 11.2 released. Though again, snapshots appear to avoid the problem.Any updates on this? Is the latest version of freenas safe?
I am looking in this thread for the first time but reading it makes me glad that I am not an early adapter with updates. Everything I read is very troublesome if you ask me.As far as I've seen, iX are no closer to figuring out why this is happening than they were when 11.2 released. Though again, snapshots appear to avoid the problem.
I agree. I did update to 11.2, and everything's working fine with no lost data. I suspect this is true for the vast majority. But there are some who are losing data, and the problem has persisted despite three updates since the 11.2 release. This bug is a showstopper, but it doesn't appear to have actually stopped the show.Everything I read is very troublesome if you ask me.
It really puzzles me why it appears to be that this is not nr 1 on the priority list at iX. I have been working as a software developer for more then 25 years. And based on my experience I know one thing for sure: you need to keep the data safe. Often you can live with some bugs, but as soon as a bug jeopardize the data security/integrity it should be "all hands on deck" to resolve that bug. In the meantime the roll out of the suspicious version should be frozen. Even knowing that the problems kan be mitigated by using snapshots.This bug is a showstopper, but it doesn't appear to have actually stopped the show.
I'm trying to reproduce the problem myself on a VM but is the update server down it says connection refused
roger, was the data loss always GUI updates so far or ISO as well?
Perhaps I am mistaken, but is comment 44 on page 2 not an example of a fresh install and loss of data, rather than an upgrade?So far I've only heard of it via GUI updates, no specific ISO upgrade that I'm aware of.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but is comment 44 on page 2 not an example of a fresh install and loss of data, rather than an upgrade?
To completely clarify, and set an example:
Dataset A has a recursive snapshot.
Dataset B does not have a snapshot.
After a fresh USB, I imported the pool, and upgraded the ZFS pool.
Dataset A via zfs list showed that it had 3TB of data, but when creating a SMB share, it did not show any files.
Dataset B showed no data at all. The dataset was there, but no mb was used.
Then I cloned the dataset A snapshot, and promoted it. Dataset A files showed up now. Dataset B was a flop and gone magically.