Deonast
Cadet
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- Dec 21, 2014
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I was about to upgrade to FreeNAS 9.3 when I noticed in the documentation caveats
"UFS is no longer supported. If your data currently resides on one UFS-formatted disk, you will need to create a ZFS volume using other disk(s) after the upgrade, then use the instructions in Import Disk to mount the UFS-formatted disk in order to copy the data to the ZFS volume"
So if I read that correctly three will be no support to boot from or use for the storage array UFS. I'm assuming if you can use an Import Disk function that support is still there to mount a UFS volume.
My question is, is that still read / write support for mounting UFS and will that remain in future releases in the 9.3 and beyond that branch.
I ask as my current use case is that I connect drives directly to the system in UFS format for backup purposes, and I then rsync data from the zfs storage array to those backup drives (takes a few backup disks to do it all). For my purposes that gets me the best speed of backups.
So as you see it all depends on if UFS support remains with read / write capability. I had tried in the past with ext2 and ended up with corruption on my backup discs, while UFS worked fine. So I don't want to lose that.
If anyone can shed some light on the road map for UFS support that would be great.
"UFS is no longer supported. If your data currently resides on one UFS-formatted disk, you will need to create a ZFS volume using other disk(s) after the upgrade, then use the instructions in Import Disk to mount the UFS-formatted disk in order to copy the data to the ZFS volume"
So if I read that correctly three will be no support to boot from or use for the storage array UFS. I'm assuming if you can use an Import Disk function that support is still there to mount a UFS volume.
My question is, is that still read / write support for mounting UFS and will that remain in future releases in the 9.3 and beyond that branch.
I ask as my current use case is that I connect drives directly to the system in UFS format for backup purposes, and I then rsync data from the zfs storage array to those backup drives (takes a few backup disks to do it all). For my purposes that gets me the best speed of backups.
So as you see it all depends on if UFS support remains with read / write capability. I had tried in the past with ext2 and ended up with corruption on my backup discs, while UFS worked fine. So I don't want to lose that.
If anyone can shed some light on the road map for UFS support that would be great.