Upgrade path to 2.4 alpha from 2.3.2 release?
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Do you get a choice of filesystems during install or is ZFS just installed by default?
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Yes, you can choose the type of filesystem.
We don't have any concrete guidelines yet but you won't want to use ZFS if you have low amounts of RAM
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Would the 4GB that comes on the 2440 be sufficient?
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That should be fine (depending on the size of your disk and other things using RAM)
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Ok. I've had a number of units experience corruption after power failures and subsequently refuse to boot without a pave/reinstall (similar to #6340. So I'm looking for something more reliable to save on truck rolls—hopefully ZFS will be the ticket.
While I'm on the subject of that corruption- I captured some debug output after the last time this happened (last week) which was from a 2.3.2 unit. Is that worth sending in anywhere, or is this a known problem / no more info needed?
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I assume one or two truck rolls would pay off a UPS.
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To be honest most of the time the problem is other people messing around with my equipment. A security vendor will come in to install a DVR and he will "need to move the power cables around to make room" or some other such nonsense and I will find he has unplugged our stuff. This happens more often than you would think. Yes a UPS is nice to have and does help in certain situations, but the human factor is always there ready to destroy even the best laid plans.
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To be honest most of the time the problem is other people messing around with my equipment.
Hard wire and silicone. ;D
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Ok. I've had a number of units experience corruption after power failures and subsequently refuse to boot without a pave/reinstall (similar to #6340. So I'm looking for something more reliable to save on truck rolls—hopefully ZFS will be the ticket.
While I'm on the subject of that corruption- I captured some debug output after the last time this happened (last week) which was from a 2.3.2 unit. Is that worth sending in anywhere, or is this a known problem / no more info needed?
redmine.pfsense.org open a bug, attach files. Thank you!
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Will do. Does it matter if 2.3.2_1 has been released since then? I don't think any changes were made with regard to filesystem…..
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no, it won't.
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Have had those crash output files sitting on my laptop for a month and I got tired of seeing them staring back at me so I finally opened a redmine. Not sure they are relevant anymore now that we are a bit closer to ZFS + 2.4. But FWIW, https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6891
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Thank you.
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Curious if an upgrade path is in place yet? :)
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Set it to upgrade to 2.3.3, then upgrade, then set it to upgrade to 2.4, then upgrade
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Thanks Jim!
:)
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While 2.4 isn't alpha anymore, the following posts might help people upgrading from 2.3.X to 2.4.X:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=140169.0
