From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 10:40:06 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 A257F16A41F; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:40:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D8D43D5A; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:40:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D0E46B38; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 06:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:42:48 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20050805210731.C924@ganymede.hub.org> Message-ID: <20050806114021.K46767@fledge.watson.org> References: <20050805172712.GA66753@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050805210731.C924@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available 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: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:40:06 -0000 On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > How/where should we be reporting such bugs? I reported a *very* easy to > reproduce hang situation with unionfs in BETA1 (and have > updated/retested as I see commits going through) over a week ago, and > the biggest 'interest' I got out of it was from Robert Watson giving me > suggestions on other stuff to provide :( The BUGS section of mount_unionfs(8) still applies -- I was primarily interested in whether the problem you experienced occurred in the absense of a documented broken feature, which it turned out noto. I suggest you see if you can interest Jeff Roberson in the problems, as they're most likely a result of VFS locking changes. I know he's done quite a bit of work to get nullfs working better, and likely the changes to nulfs also need to be propagated and merged into unionfs. Robert N M Watson > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ken Smith wrote: > >> >> Announcement >> ------------ >> >> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the >> availability >> of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2. >> >> Because suitable pre-build packages are not widely available (see the >> Known Issues section below) BETA2 only has disc1 and bootonly ISOs >> available, and there are no FTP install trees. >> >> We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be >> identified >> and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given below. If you have >> an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based >> upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6 (though that will change for the >> Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the >> send-pr(1) command. >> >> The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the >> todo list: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html >> >> Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough >> idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available >> but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined": >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html >> >> Known Issues >> ------------ >> >> Prebuilt packages are not available at this time due to the recent bump >> of shared library version numbers. The installation procedure will >> fail to install things normally present as packages (e.g. perl). There >> is a full ports tree available so you can build anything you want to >> use from that. >> >> Availability >> ------------ >> >> The BETA2 ISOs are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list >> of the mirror sites is available here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html >> >> The MD5s are: >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 800d6bf84642ade264fce2594b783136 >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 12cbc4fbf616a8a6c70184aaa3e389a4 >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4e027ebc30157677464e8a4766d6f924 >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 2e54efd31dc63dadf5b68b4345233611 >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 70129bbc9e490836de7544230b6bc6fb >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3b1917c8143cbc99b22fc50e405c710f >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 60a277555ae190b30113cd2fab9a3d64 >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = a89acc0a1493b8c4d3786ddef33bdf42 >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 85d0f5d14d0e8b1697aa2c4dcdf73f68 >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = bfca0ea211c1f977204b9677720289db >> >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = a79dae4b17b14dda908b84ac388a411b >> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 6aaefe58e249057d4b7d2418ec1c52c5 >> >> -ken >> > > ---- > Marc G. 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