Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:39:12 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: f-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.3 Message-ID: <20041111233912.GA91787@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7AA0C2D3-343A-11D9-900C-000393681B06@lafn.org>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:36:15PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > I am doing some testing of 5.3 in preperation to converting a number of > production boxes from 4.6. A couple questions I have not been able to > find answers for: > > One of my systems has a very large IDE drive that is used to hold some > long term very large files that are rarely created but occasionally > referenced. The system disks are all SCSI. When I convert that system > will the IDE drive (UFS format obviously) be mountable on 5.3? Or do I > need to reformat it also? I don't have any easy way to preserve those > files because of their size. You don't need to reformat; 5.3 reads UFS filesystems (and this is unlikely to ever change). > The port pstack doesn't work on the basic 5.3 install. It expects > /proc to be there. I can mount /proc and then pstack works just fine. > My guess is that proc was removed for a reason. procfs is historically very insecure against malicious local users. If you don't care, you can just continue to mount procfs. Krishelp
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