--- On Sun, 27/12/09, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over.. > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 27 December, 2009, 22:24 > On Sunday 27 December 2009 21:46:23 > Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a gentoo circa 2008 install that i have pretty > much the bare minimal > > to keep up to date... i now have the problem > that i need to upgrade mdadm, > > lvm and probably a few other bits and pieces. > This machine is used almost > > exclusively as a windows file server. > > > > I am getting blocks all over the show and lots of > applications needs > > reinstalling/upgradining on a emerge world. i > have also had problems > > getting the kernel to do what it needs to do a i > installed the minimal > > when i started.. > > > > So i am wondering... it is easier to try and upgrade > it, or as i have 2 > > raid 1 drives as the operating system drives and > the rest of the drives > > are pure data, i can disconnect one and wipe the > other reinstall from > > fresh as a degraded raid 1 and when i know we > are good to go, wipe the > > disconnected drive and add to the array to > resync and go from there? > > the mdadm/lvm blocks are easy to fix, just unmerge mdadm > and merge lvm. > > Then upgrade portage to latest *masked* version (it's > stable and trouble-free > despite the classification), and most of the remaining > blockers should be > resolved automatically by portage. Depending on what > remains, you may or may > not decide to proceed with an upgrade as opposed to a > reinstall. > > But it's only one year back, shouldn't give too much > trouble on a minimalist > system. Off the top of my head, I can only really think of > the monolithic to > split ebuild samba split > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > I absolutely depend on mdadm/lvm (which i believe require in some way devicemapper and udev) and these are the biggest things i am worried about changing. Does anyone have any experience here? I am assuming that unmerging and remerging should be relatively problem free? If i can get these bad boys upto date that is all i really care about...
