Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:12:39 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Jeremiah Gowdy <data@dualcpus.com> Subject: Re: OpenBSD's FFS/dirpref/softupdates improvements Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104201111390.91053-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010419101350.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > I suspect that Jordan would shoot someone who suggested a MFC before > > 4.3 is out. > > It needs more work, too. If you try to use an old fsck with the new kernel, > then the old fsck will clobber some new variables in the superblock. Then the > new kernel will panic later on instead of doing a sanity check on the new > values in the superblock and falling back to defaults if they are bogus. This > is a major POLA bug and the changes shouldn't go into 4.x unless this is fixed. > This breaks the recommended method of updating stable by doing the installworld > after rebooting into a new kernel. On other hand, it makes some troubles if filesystem is shared between 4.x and -current :) -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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