Is RC2 usable yet? Can I import 21.x series backup

[NetGobbler]

I need to re-do my box, it's UFS and I didn't realise how often that corrupts, plus I'm a ZFS fan.

I have a backup of my config, but I'd like to wipe the machine and do it fresh, would it be really unwise to use RC2? Seems like that should be pretty stable right?

[franco]

Well, there's only RC1 in images and although pretty stable we recommend waiting for the real deal. If all goes well that is tomorrow.  8)


Cheers,
Franco

[sToRmInG]

@franco
Would you recommend to clean install when coming from 21.7 on ZFS?

[franco]

No need to reinstall in that case. The only thing that changes about the installation is that /boot/efi is now added to fstab for the efi boot partition so it is mounted in a running system by default.

Potentially FreeBSD wants to use this for boot loader updates in the future, but I doubt it'll be a necessity to upgrade that part of the system.


Cheers,
Franco

[NetGobbler]

Well, there's only RC1 in images and although pretty stable we recommend waiting for the real deal. If all goes well that is tomorrow.  8)


Cheers,
Franco

I think you may well have convinced me to have a little patience then.

Thank you for the hard work.

[isamudaison]

I've just finished setting up 22.1R2 from scratch and here are my findings:

- Kernel panic that completely crashed the host (dump sent to devs)
- Incomplete/broken 'automatic rule' creation for IPv6 -> I had to go in and un-check & then re-check the "enable IPv6" checkbox, then re-save for the rule to properly get created (spent a good couple hours trying to figure that one out; randomly stumbled on a forum post from 2018/19 I believe where someone figured that one out)
- broken dynamic DNS by way of ddclient; I use no-ip and it simply doesn't work (had to revert to the old dyndns client)
- Firewall rules that, previously one would have to specify a gateway on to allow WAN traffic (e.g. when setting up VLANs) no longer works that way; gateways should be all set to 'default' now apparently for these rules

All told I spent a good ~8 hours troubleshooting very, very random issues. Aside from that performance is snappy!

[onedr0p]

I am fortunate to have two protectli devices so I copied the config back up from my live router and installed 22.1 on the other router. The config imported just fine and I was up and running in under an hour.

[NetGobbler]

I've just finished setting up 22.1R2 from scratch and here are my findings:

- Kernel panic that completely crashed the host (dump sent to devs)
- Incomplete/broken 'automatic rule' creation for IPv6 -> I had to go in and un-check & then re-check the "enable IPv6" checkbox, then re-save for the rule to properly get created (spent a good couple hours trying to figure that one out; randomly stumbled on a forum post from 2018/19 I believe where someone figured that one out)
- broken dynamic DNS by way of ddclient; I use no-ip and it simply doesn't work (had to revert to the old dyndns client)
- Firewall rules that, previously one would have to specify a gateway on to allow WAN traffic (e.g. when setting up VLANs) no longer works that way; gateways should be all set to 'default' now apparently for these rules

All told I spent a good ~8 hours troubleshooting very, very random issues. Aside from that performance is snappy!

Have you reported these issues? That's a surprisingly long list for RC2.

[franco]

The thing about random issues is that they likely existed before, were documented somewhere or made no pledge to be feature complete at the time of its release. Happy to look at issues raised in GitHub. Bullet point format in the forum cross-post isn't really ideal for a number of reasons. ;)


Cheers,
Franco