Nick Holland wrote:
jean-francois wrote:
Hello,
May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in
'small production' (personal servers for home use actually) ?
NO. (or at least, for no more than about six months. :)
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade47.html#softraid
(yeah, perhaps not the most intuitive place to look for this question,
but I figure most experienced OpenBSD users will be looking at this
page at some point...)
the recent sr metadata bump means you have to do a backup / restore
after recreating your sr volumes with e.g. a new bsd.rd or booting from
a recent snapshot on a removable/network device. it is a pita, but so
long as you're competent this is not that tough.
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100326172808
remember that when restoring using bsd.rd that you need to mount a
proper sized /tmp since the ramdisk does not have enough /tmp space to
handle restore-ing larger partition dumps. if the idea of doing this
dump restore seems tough, you should probably wait.
