FreeNAS 11.3 and EOL Jails. Upgrade to 11.4 jails?

[Matt_G]

Except that doesn't work for plugin jails, which are pegged to their plugin-set release.
Acknowledging that plugins suck, is there a clean way to convert a plugin jail to a regular base jail? I'd rather avoid starting back from scratch, although this appears to be a common thing in the freebsd world, judging by a number of post read here and elsewhere ;P

Have you found a way to get that plugin jail up to 11.4?

 

[rmccullough]

How long should I expect iocage upgrade -r 11.4-RELEASE <jail> to take to run? It seems like it takes a while on my machine.

 

[millst]

Upgrade takes a long time for me, but I can't say I've every actually timed it. It is long enough that I will go do something else and check it later.

 

[rmccullough]

I didn't really time it either. I checked the time I just started another upgrade. Will see how long it takes.
UPDATE: Going from 11.2 to 11.4 took about 40 minutes on my hardware. Doing 11.3 to 11.4 now...
UPDATE2: Going from 11.3 to 11.4 took a lot less time, like 15min. I suspect it not only matters the major release, but the sub-release (e.g. 11.2-RELEASE-p12 will take less time than 11.2-RELEASE-p9 since it is 3 patch releases newer and thus fewer files to patch.

Also, any known issues with updating iocage jails containing OpenVPN, Plex, Apache, etc.?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

If you don't need a source tree inside the jail - and in most cases you don't - you can remove /usr/src first. That will speed up upgrades significantly.

 

[rmccullough]

How can you update from 11.4-RELEASE-p5 to 11.4-RELEASE-p6?

 

[Mannekino]

How can you update from 11.4-RELEASE-p5 to 11.4-RELEASE-p6?

You just issue the command iocage update <jailname> outside the Jail.

I'm not sure if you need to fetch the latest release again. If that doesn't work run iocage fetch and then select the 11.4-RELEASE and then run the update again.

 

[rmccullough]

Ok, so you don't need the -r flag. Got it. Thanks.

 

[Mannekino]

Ok, so you don't need the -r flag. Got it. Thanks.

That's the upgrade command, not the update. The update command will get you on the latest patch level.

To upgrade the release you would use iocage upgrade <jailname> -r 12.2-RELEASE as an example.

 

[rmccullough]

Oh, ok, I get it now. Thanks!

 

[rmccullough]

Hmm, I did that and it seemed to finish:
root@freenas[~]# iocage update scratch Snapshot already exists!

But did not seem to update the dot-release. Am I running this incorrectly?

And the upgrade says I am already at that release:
root@freenas[~]# iocage upgrade -r 11.4-RELEASE scratch Jail: scratch is already at version 11.4-RELEASE!

 

[Mannekino]

If you want to see the patch level of the Jail you need to go inside the Jail and run the command freebsd-version. It should return:

Code:

11.4-RELEASE-p6

 

[hertzsae]

Or you can run

Code:

iocage list -l

from the freenas shell and see the version for all jails.

 

[rmccullough]

This is what that prints:

Code:

+-----+--------------+------+-------+------+-----------------+-----------------------+-----+----------+
| JID |     NAME     | BOOT | STATE | TYPE |     RELEASE     |          IP4          | IP6 | TEMPLATE |
+=====+==============+======+=======+======+=================+=======================+=====+==========+
| -   | scratch      | off  | down  | jail | 11.4-RELEASE-p5 | DHCP (not running)    | -   | -        |
+-----+--------------+------+-------+------+-----------------+-----------------------+-----+----------+

How can I get this upgraded/updated to the p6 update of 11.4?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

iocage update scratch

 

[rmccullough]

Code:

root@freenas[~]# iocage update scratch
Snapshot already exists!

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Then delete the snapshot ...

 

[rmccullough]

Is that done from Storage > Snapshots in the Web UI? Is there any risk to this? I see 3 snapshots:

Code:

Tank/iocage/jails/scratch/root@ioc_update_11.4-RELEASE-p5
Tank/iocage/jails/scratch@ioc_update_11.4-RELEASE-p5
Tank/iocage/releases/11.4-RELEASE/root@scratch

Is it safe to delete all of these from the UI?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The last one probably not, but definitely the "update" ones. These are just a copy before the update for safety.

 

[rmccullough]

This seems to indicate there are no updates from p5 to p6:

Code:

root@freenas[~]# iocage update scratch
Snapshot: Tank/iocage/jails/scratch@ioc_update_11.4-RELEASE-p5 created.

* Updating scratch to the latest patch level...
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 11.4-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 11.4-RELEASE-p6.
src component not installed, skipped
No updates are available to install.
Run '/tmp/tmphqr1tauz fetch' first.
umount: unmount of /mnt/iocage/jails/scratch/root/dev failed: Device busy

scratch has been updated successfully.
root@freenas[~]# iocage list -l
+-----+--------------+------+-------+------+-----------------+-----------------------+-----+----------+
| JID |     NAME     | BOOT | STATE | TYPE |     RELEASE     |          IP4          | IP6 | TEMPLATE |
+=====+==============+======+=======+======+=================+=======================+=====+==========+
| -   | scratch      | off  | down  | jail | 11.4-RELEASE-p5 | DHCP (not running)    | -   | -        |
+-----+--------------+------+-------+------+-----------------+-----------------------+-----+----------+