On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:46 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote:
> My questions is about our 5 TB data pool:
> 
>    * Is  there any risk in upgrading zpool and zfs?
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of any and I've done quite a lot of upgrades.
> 
> I can think of one: If you've done an OS upgrade, upgrading the zpool takes 
> away your ability to roll back the upgrade, since the old OS won't be able to 
> read the upgraded pool.
> 
> Obviously this isn't so much of a concern in the case of a reinstall, but it 
> does mean that if you find a bug in Solaris 11 you can't work around, you 
> won't be able to easily go back.  For that reason I tend to hang back on 
> zpool upgrades until I'm sure the new system is stable.

Ok, so it seems a good idea to wait a couple of weeks before upgrading the pool 
and zfs datasets.
One questions remains though:
        Do i need the stmf property in order to use COMSTAR iscsi?

-Heinrich

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