From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 19 10:20:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2221337B628 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:20:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14432; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:20:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA08229; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:20:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003191820.LAA08229@harmony.village.org> To: bfoz@glue.umd.edu Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:26:20 EST." <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> References: <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:20:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> Brandon Fosdick writes: : I thought of that, but I didn't know what the devices w/o slice numbers : did. Guess I should have just tried it. Devices w/o slice numbers are the "compatibility" devices. These map to the first BSD partition on the disk. For most people, this is the only partition on the disk. It is a shame that you can't use them to mount / on / in an emergency. The consistancy checks won't let you. Mounting one file system read only and the other read/write is asking for trouble. But the trouble tends to manifest itself as the r/o file system not seeing the changes in the r/w file system. In olden days, this could cause a panic, but I've not seen such panics in a while. I don't know if this means that I'm lucky, or if the underlying problems have been corrected. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message