From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 18 12:46:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17553 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17542 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:46:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22830; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:42:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803182042.MAA22830@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Studded , Mike Smith , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disk layout concernes (was Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:06:14 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:42:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > At 8:50 PM -0600 3/16/98, Studded wrote: > >Strong vote for keeping it in. In my mind (and with all due respect to > >those involved) the problems we've seen were caused by too little > >notice, too little regression testing, and too few people reading the > >right lists at all. It seems to me that the bugs have been worked out of > >the thing, and we have an opportunity to shout the news from the > I believe that this is incorrect. I, am I am sure others who might not > be so vocal, have a configuration that I don't know how to use with the > new kernel. > > As I understand it, Mike understands the problem but does not (yet) have a > solution short of reformatting the HD. I'll just sit on this one right now (I've been away playing house). You are completely wrong. I have told you this previously, and went to the special extent of mailing you explicitly once the (legitimate) problem you were seeing was corrected. I have never suggested that reformatting your disk was required (or recommended). > This is not a version mismatch problem. I have the latest (-stable) of > everything. This includes the "mount", MAKEDEV, and kernel changes. All > imagined sd0 entries are in /dev, etc. Then you have been remiss in describing your situation to me. I have not received any sort of bug report from you regarding your situation, let alone any supporting detail. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message