From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 18 04:02:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AC6106566C for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922DC8FC08 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:02:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from [10.29.62.4] (port=56120 helo=Aris-MacBook-Pro.local) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MS2CI-0002mc-0u; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:10:58 +1000 Message-ID: <4A614957.4060703@ish.com.au> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:02:31 +1000 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090714 Shredder/3.0b3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA2 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:02:36 -0000 On 18/07/09 1:29 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-BETA2 > > During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some > configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging > was done correctly. > > # freebsd-update install > > The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing. > > # shutdown -r now FreeBSD 7 users who have /usr /var, etc on ZFS should not follow these instructions exactly. Rebooting into a new kernel with the old userland ZFS tools will result in the system not being able to mount the ZFS filesystems and therefore not being able to reboot. [1] Ari Maniatis [1] See my more detailed comment at the bottom here: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A