From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 19:18:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805F637B401; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455BD43E6E; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C0BE7816B7; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:48:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:48:42 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... Message-ID: <20021002021842.GJ42283@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <88010.1033412986@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021001074859.GG44476@starjuice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021001074859.GG44476@starjuice.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 1 October 2002 at 9:48:59 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On (2002/09/30 21:09), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Provided nothing terminal pops up in the next 5 days, GEOM will >> become default in -current on Saturday 5th of october. >> >> Please test it now on _your_ configuration and tell me if it >> fails to work. > > There are problems in -CURRENT that have held me back from upgrading for > two weeks. These include X crashes and kernel panics. > > Maybe you'd get more testers if you wait until the latest serious > problems are resolved before going ahead. > > Maybe you wouldn't, though. So I wouldn't be annoyed if you responded > with "Worth considering, but I don't think waiting would make a > difference." :-) Given the number of problems that people have reported in pretty short order after this message, I'd suggest that you fix them first before making it the default. Otherwise people won't even bother trying to test them, and the intention will fail. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message