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    Upgrade path to 2.4 alpha from 2.3.2 release?

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    • luckman212L
      luckman212 LAYER 8
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      Would the 4GB that comes on the 2440 be sufficient?

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        That should be fine (depending on the size of your disk and other things using RAM)

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        • luckman212L
          luckman212 LAYER 8
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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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            Harvy66
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            I assume one or two truck rolls would pay off a UPS.

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            • luckman212L
              luckman212 LAYER 8
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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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              • chpalmerC
                chpalmer
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                @luckman212:

                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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                  jwt Netgate
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                  @luckman212:

                  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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                  • luckman212L
                    luckman212 LAYER 8
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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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                      jwt Netgate
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                      no, it won't.

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                      • luckman212L
                        luckman212 LAYER 8
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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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                          jwt Netgate
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                          Thank you.

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                          • chpalmerC
                            chpalmer
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                            Curious if an upgrade path is in place yet?  :)

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Set it to upgrade to 2.3.3, then upgrade, then set it to upgrade to 2.4, then upgrade

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                              • chpalmerC
                                chpalmer
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                                Thanks Jim!

                                :)

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                                  jtechsense
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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

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