From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 23:39:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id C354916A4D0; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:39:12 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:39:12 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Hardie Message-ID: <20041111233912.GA91787@hub.freebsd.org> References: <7AA0C2D3-343A-11D9-900C-000393681B06@lafn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7AA0C2D3-343A-11D9-900C-000393681B06@lafn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: f-questions Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:39:12 -0000 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. Kris