Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:13:00 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT4X and 5.x ... how backwards compatible? Message-ID: <20040515181227.I920@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040515205417.03f5c8e0@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <20040515151158.Q13297@ganymede.hub.org> <6.1.0.6.1.20040515205417.03f5c8e0@popserver.sfu.ca>
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On Sat, 15 May 2004, Colin Percival wrote: > At 19:14 15/05/2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >I'm picking up some new servers, and want to start looking at migrating to > >5.x from 4.x ... how viable is it to install 5.x on the new server, and > >move an existing jail'd environment over to there and run it, with the 4.x > >binaries/libraries inside of the jail? Is this "wishful thinking" on my > >part, that this would be possible? > > As long as you mount an appropriate devfs inside each jail, this should > be possible. I run RELENG_4_x jails inside a RELENG_5_2 system for the > purpose of building binary updates, and I haven't had any problems yet. How do stuff like ps work, or do they? I know I've seen updates to the 4.x base system cause ps to break inside of the jail itself, so I'm guessing stuff like this won't work across? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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