From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 06:30:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B2516A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:30:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4965943D1F for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:30:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-86-22.san.res.rr.com [66.27.86.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5L6UbkZ025754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:30:38 -0700 Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20050620232733.07d3ecb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Sender: lists@cobalt.antimatter.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:28:41 -0700 To: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <20050621032200.N993@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050621032200.N993@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: 4.x binaries on a 5.x machine ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:30:39 -0000 At 11:24 PM 6/20/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >I'm looking at adding my first 5.x server onto our network, but am >wondering how 'backward compatible' things are still ... > >Mainly, could I run a 4.x jail'd environment on a 5.x server, or would I >have to upgrade the jail first? This option from the GENERIC kernel config in 5.4 would seem to suggest that it would work.... though I haven't tried it myself. options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 -Glenn >Long term goal is to move all boxes over to 5.x, but I can't do it all at >once ... I also want to spend some time testing/making sure that 5.x will >work in our environment, which means any jail's I move over to the server >need to be able to be copied back again to a 4.x server if things don't >work ... so leaving the jail environment itself "4.x" is prefer'd ... > >Thanks ... > >---- >Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) >Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"