upgrading from 9.3 to 9.10, when?

[styno]

Last weekend I moved from 9.3.1 to 9.10 on a box with some jails, plugins and vbox vm's.
I made sure that the box was running the latest 9.3 updates and all plugins and jails were updated and running fine. Did a reboot before the upgrade to be sure that 9.3.1 was booting.
Changed trains in the gui, clicked update, went for a coffee. I came back to 9.10 and started streaming from plex. All went well.

It's also worth mentioning that the system has a simple failover lagg network setup ( it's easier if you can stick the network cable in whatever nic you 'feel' first behind the case )

ymmv

 

[sfbayzfs]

A couple of days ago I tried installing 9.10 on a friend's 2 month old system which had been running 9.3.1 from a brand new Sandisk Cruzer Fit USB 2.0 on a Supermicro X7DBE motherboard with a 9211-8i because the Sandisk got corrupted after a shutdown. The 9.10 installer USB (which boots on other systems) failed to boot fully, so we reinstalled 9.3.1 seamlessly, but this time onto a mirrored pair of industrial CF cards in an IDE adapter.

It therefore looks like X7 generation Intel Xeon 5[1234]xx DDR2 FB-DIMM based hardware may not be well supported in FreeBSD 10.

 

[dasunsrule32]

So I'll give this a shot tomorrow and see if that's the issue with the lagg. Sounds like a major freebsd 10.3 issue. Makes sense since freenas is moving to a beta branch, when it's not stable.

http://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/4gbd21/-/d2g5jen

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[marcevan]

Giving this a shot now via changing trains in the GUI, looking for updates and the only pending ones are 9.3->9.10

I'll do what earlier poster did: go out for a coffee and see what's what when I get back.

Plex is my jam, so if that works on the return, I'm all good.

 

[marcevan]

Ta da! Came back sans coffee and got a fresh prompt for login to 9.10

1. Alert is now back to green
2. Jails all up
3. Installed plugins all on
4. Plex is fine, just needed a one time re-login to plex account
5. Just ran thru Sickrage and fetched some missing shows and went to Transmission: all good.

So this was painless and easy and glad to be on a supported train again.

 

[dasunsrule32]

So my issue was a failing USB flash drive. Replaced the old failing one and everything worked correctly after an upgrade and reconfiguring the lagg.

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[Bigtexun]

So I have several FreeNAS systems, and in another thread I saw someone having 9.10 problems with iscsi, his VMware systems would bring iscsi up, then drop it, over and over... That made me nervous about switching to the 9.10 train any time soon for my super-critical iSCSI SAN systems feeding my VMware boxes.

And for those of you that haven't tried iSCSI, I have found it to be similar in performance to local SAS drives configured as raid10. The iSCSI reads are slightly slower, but the iSCSI writes are faster. This is over 10g ethernet connections through a Cisco 6509 switch with an 8-port 10g card, with all 10g ports in use (this card has a 1:2 backplane bandwidth over subscription, so I might see even better performance if I turned off half of the ports with the Cisco "performance mode" command for the 10g card). But the point is that iSCSI is well worth using instead of NFS. Historically NFS has been a dog of a performer because of the way the protocol works, so I never even think about testing NFS performance... I mean who needs the disappointment?

 

[Scharbag]

Updated to latest 9.3.1 this morning (reset my uptime to 0 from 127 days, why does this make me sad?), then to 9.10. All my old jails seemed to work fine other than some IPFW configs due to tun0 and tun1 renaming on restart (PIA VPN stuff).

All of my jails (7 of them) are old school 9.3 vintage with static IPs and booted just fine. All of my services started properly it seems.

Cheers for what seems to be a nice upgrade.

:)