Guys, I'm here to clarify a few questions. 9.3->9.10 update failed for me yesterday. I'm able to boot into previous environment. And I was told it is good enough and I sit tight and wait for u2. This is what I have in boot menu right now:
My next step would be: selecting 9.3 stable environment and clicking Activate. That way system will be booted by default over there? It is safe for me do it, since I didn't have any configuration updates since failure.
A few questions:
- Some people say in this topic "I rolled-back", activating previous environment stands for "rolling-back here" or something else?
- Is so, I don't understand why some people have issues after going to previous version, since it is a snapshot (right?) it should bring exactly to the previous (i.e. workable) state without leftovers from the failed upgrade.
- do I need to remove somehow failed environment (see the last row: FreeNas-<blah-blah>)?
- Technically activating prev. environment boots system from a snapshot? Does it mean that my system will be forked? This is form documentation?:
* FreeNAS now uses ZFS for the boot device(s), also supporting selection and mirroring of one or more boot devices for greater reliabilty. The features of ZFS are also utilized to provide cloned "boot environments" which allow the system to be rolled back (or even forked) to different OS versions.
- Overall I would like to confirm if I can use (update configurations, install jails etc) activated previous environment without any drawbacks. And I will be OK apply apply a new freenas version (U2) to it as soon as it is available.