From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 20 11:17:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEC037B40C for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7KIGiw03265; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:16:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200108201816.f7KIGiw03265@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: sharing disk between current and stable? In-Reply-To: <15233.17464.670084.800903@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Andrew Gallatin >Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:09:12 -0400 (EDT) >Is it safe to share a disk between -current and -stable these days? I've ben doing in since about the 2nd week of March, tracking -STABLE & -CURRENT daily (with a few exceptions; sometimes I couldn't build -CURRENT for as much as a day). >I've been away from freebsd for the last few months and have a fuzzy >recollection that something about the on-disk superblock structure >changed in -current earlier this summer (related to dirprefs?) and >fsck on -stable wouldn't be able to fsck a fs used by current. >Is that still a problem? It doesn't seem to be a problem for me. YMMV; void where prohibited, taxed, or otherwise restricted, etc. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message