Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:49:06 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade Message-ID: <200003072349.QAA97583@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2000 11:44:00 PST." <20000307114400.A27909@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000307114400.A27909@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <20000305202435.A39101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000307110109.A52023@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000307101957.A5565@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <20000307191442.B19024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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In message <20000307114400.A27909@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Brooks Davis writes: : You don't need to update /dev though. As long as you don't change : anything else, a 4.0 kernel will work just fine with a 3.x /dev and : userland (other then top and friends). You can delay updating /dev : until later as the ata code will deal with wd devices as well as ad : devices. This is incorrect information. If you ever have a dirty filesystem, the new fsck will not be able to fix that and you'll be unable to mount that filesystem w/o reboot, iirc. : I built my current laptop configuration by installing 3.3 from : CD, cvsuping to 4.0, installing a new kernel, and then building and : installing world. I looked at UPDATING. I think it's wrong. It should : have you test a new kernel before rebuilding /dev. You should do it, : but like the scsi disk renaming it isn't mandatory, at least for now. : I think the problem is that UPDATING is a bit to optomistic about : things. If you have a system that works with the new ata driver it's : correct, but otherwise it's a good way to waste your system. :-( Alternative, accurate, text welcome :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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