[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading OpenSolaris 134 to OpenIndiana

[David Dyer-Bennet]

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That's straight 134; NOT 134a or 134b.

Is <http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Upgrading+from+OpenSolaris>
best-practices on this?  (Including the comments, but it looks like
that's largely ways to get there from 134b, and I'm lucky enough to
not have gone to b, so it sounds easy; is it easy?)  (And if that's
NOT best-practices, why hasn't somebody updated it?)

This is my home fileserver, with "all my files" on it, but actually
only three mirrored pairs of data drives in one data pool, total under
2TB offered to clients (i.e. fairly small).  Three sets of backups,
two of which will be current when I try the upgrade, and I'm going to
have a livecd for emergency purposes already ready.  The 134
installation has Zfs root, so the new installation should be just
another layer there, and it should be trivial to roll back if anything
is wrong; I've played with that before, and that worked (on previous
upgrades).  The data disks are a separate pool from the system disks,
so there shouldn't be any interaction.

I know that, if the upgrade initially works, and I update the ZFS pool
version, I lose the ability to roll back and access the data, so I
won't do that for a while.

Anything else I need to know?  (I considered free NexentaStore,
there's ample safety margin in the disk space limit; but that doesn't
technically seem to allow my use, which sometimes includes files for
contract work and photos that I sometimes sell, and backing up my
wife's computer which she uses to write books, and so forth.  Plus
OpenIndiana should be almost just like what I'm used to.  I vaguely
considered trying FreeBSD,  but again there's the question of what I'm
used to, and this should be a simpler upgrade, plus I'm using
in-kernel CIFS which I hear is "better" than Samba plus again is what
I'm used to now.)

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