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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: Possible upgrade problem?
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On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:42:34PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> After a recent report on a difference between 2.2.x and 3.1 GENERIC
> kernel, I confirmed that the following change never went into
> 2.2.x-stable. Furthermore, the upgrade target *does not* deal with
> it. Further furthermore, nor does UPDATING mention it (it's newer
> than the change). It seems kernels without this can boot, but are
> unstable. Comments? Work-arounds? Is a comment in Errata in order?

There shouldn't be a difference between kernels with and without this
at this time.

The change was introduced in 3.x in order to make it a smooth
transition from 3.x to 4.x possible when I did the described changes
in 4.x.  It was not supposed to be activated in 3.x, as that would
make an upgrade from 2.2.x to 3.x painful.

I've since then learned more about the interactions in the kernel, and
it looks like I can implement better ways of handling this, so I've
not activated the change this was in preparation for in 4.x, either.

> src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC:
> 
> 1.105 Sat Jan 24 2:54:09 1998 UTC by eivind 
> Diffs to 1.104 
> 
> Make all file-system (MFS, FFS, NFS, LFS, DEVFS) related option
> new-style.
> 
> This introduce an xxxFS_BOOT for each of the rootable filesystems.
> (Presently not required, but encouraged to allow a smooth move of
> option *FS to opt_dontuse.h later.)

Eivind.


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