# AMD64, Supermicro hardware. ZFS filesystem (booting to UFS, then rest of the file system /usr /var /tmp on ZFS).
I used "freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE" and all went well for the usual first install of the kernel with "freebsd-update install". After rebooting into single user mode, I manually mounted the ZFS partitions (which needs to be done as follows since the ZFS userland tools are incompatible with 8.0): mount -uw / mount -t zfs tank/usr /usr mount -t zfs tank/var /var mount -t zfs tank/tmp /tmp mount /bootdir Then I ran "freebsd-update install" for the second time to install the userland. The disk lights flashed a lot at the start, but then the system came to an almost complete halt. Looking at 'systat -vmstat' I can see that the disk and cpu are both almost idle. 'top' doesn't work (since it probably is the old userland). 'ps ax' shows that freebsd-install is running and has spawned an 'install' command. It is installing files at the rate of about one per 5 minutes. At this rate it should be done by next Christmas. I can see that the files it completes have their modified date changed to the current date. There is nothing interesting in /var/log/messages. It is still working, and I don't want to kill it for fear of ending up with a completely non-functional system. Any thoughts about this problem? I'm really stumped. Thanks Ari Maniatis -- --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
