Upgrading from 2.6.38, how?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Firstly I know what I've been doing has been less than 100% safe, but
I've been prepared to live with it.

For about 2 years now (you know from around the time btrfs looked like
RAID5/6 was just around the corner) I've had a server with a 5 disk
RAID10 btrfs array. I realise there has been quite some change to the
btrfs implementation since 2.6.38 but I'm hoping that there shouldn't
be anything blocking me moving to a much more modern kernel.

My proposed upgrade method is:
Boot from a live CD with the latest kernel I can find so I can do a few tests:
 A - run the fsck in read only mode to confirm things look good
 B - mount read only, confirm that I can read files well
 C - mount read write, confirm working
Install latest OS, upgrade to latest kernel, then repeat above steps.

Any likely hiccups with the above procedure and suggested alternatives?

-- 
Gareth Pye
Level 2 Judge, Melbourne, Australia
Australian MTG Forum: mtgau.com
gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - www.rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com
"Dear God, I would like to file a bug report"
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux