Nick Holland wrote:
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> jean-francois wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in
>> 'small production' (personal servers for home use actually) ?
>>     
>
> NO.  (or at least, for no more than about six months. :)
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade47.html#softraid
>
> (yeah, perhaps not the most intuitive place to look for this question,
> but I figure most experienced OpenBSD users will be looking at this
> page at some point...)
>
>   



the recent sr metadata bump means you have to do a backup / restore 
after recreating your sr volumes with e.g. a new bsd.rd or booting from 
a recent snapshot on a removable/network device. it is a pita, but so 
long as you're competent this is not that tough.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100326172808

remember that when restoring using bsd.rd that you need to mount a 
proper sized /tmp since the ramdisk does not have enough /tmp space to 
handle restore-ing larger partition dumps. if the idea of doing this 
dump restore seems tough, you should probably wait.