I recently installed 9.0 via bsdinstall and made the grave error of leaving the UFS options at their defaults of SU+J. While it should work in theory, I found out the hard way that, as others have mentioned, live dumps will not work with SU+J on 9.0-RELEASE.
Since I'd like to back up the drive, what are my options? I've read on this forum that just something as simple as going to 9-STABLE fixes the issue. Can anyone confirm this, as I'd rather be on -RELEASE, unless this issue is definitely fixed on -STABLE.
If not, can I safely drop journaling from the partitions? If so, does this have to be done in single user or offline, or can it be done while the FS is live? Normally it wouldn't be an issue, but currently neither serial nor the GPU is working on the machine, and I'm waiting on a PCI riser card to install an old PCI card in the 1U case. :\ It's a bit of a job if I have to do it while the drive is offline, but I suppose I can configure another installation with sshd on an external drive, plug it in via eSATA, and do any configuration on the primary disk after booting to the external.
Edit: Just found another post by a dev that seems to confirm that snapshots are working on 9-STABLE, so I think I'll just go to that.
Since I'd like to back up the drive, what are my options? I've read on this forum that just something as simple as going to 9-STABLE fixes the issue. Can anyone confirm this, as I'd rather be on -RELEASE, unless this issue is definitely fixed on -STABLE.
If not, can I safely drop journaling from the partitions? If so, does this have to be done in single user or offline, or can it be done while the FS is live? Normally it wouldn't be an issue, but currently neither serial nor the GPU is working on the machine, and I'm waiting on a PCI riser card to install an old PCI card in the 1U case. :\ It's a bit of a job if I have to do it while the drive is offline, but I suppose I can configure another installation with sshd on an external drive, plug it in via eSATA, and do any configuration on the primary disk after booting to the external.
Edit: Just found another post by a dev that seems to confirm that snapshots are working on 9-STABLE, so I think I'll just go to that.