Re: Bhyve CD-ROM

Those are all very good suggestions, and things I already implement into my upgrade strategy.
I like being in the second wave of upgraders. Turns out I missed that wave awhile back this time, though. D:
zfs datasets and snapshots make the life of a sysadmin so easy, it almost feels like cheating.

> ----------------------------------------
> From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
> Sent: Tue Nov 30 23:39:34 CET 2021
> To: Sysadmin Lists <sysadmin.lists@mailfence.com>
> Cc: Freebsd Virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Bhyve CD-ROM
> 
> 
> On Nov 30, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Sysadmin Lists <sysadmin.lists@mailfence.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, all you cool kids are running 13.0-* already while I'm waiting for 12.3-RELEASE to get out of beta. :P
> > I have to decide if fixing Bhyve by jumping to 13.0-RELEASE is worth the time required to fix whatever else breaks from the upgrade.
> 
> This "cool kid" is perhaps older than you:-)
> 
> I did jump to 13.0-RELEASE as soon as possible! In my experience
> the best time to upgrade is when everyone else is also facing the
> same issues (or do so a little later) so that any problems you run
> into, you can get help or hints on at least what else to try. The
> longer you wait, the harder it gets. A lot of breakage gets fixed
> right away but some "breakage" is due to some design change and
> then the user has to do things slightly differently to deal with
> it. This latter pain is not going to go away and a few months
> later people are going to forget what they did.
> 
> You do need to make sure you can revert to the old version if
> things you care about are not fixed soon enough. I think a better
> setup is to keep user directories on a separate partition but
> everything else (except var) on the same partition and use zfs
> snapshotting to be able to easily revert.


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