Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:25:34 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de>, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports Message-ID: <201202241725.35198.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSvpFs6NuVD1nEmnjTpxrugGDp2piOpWddcz7H_1FqJDrQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> <201202241346.15160.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <CAPS9%2BSvpFs6NuVD1nEmnjTpxrugGDp2piOpWddcz7H_1FqJDrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 15:34:06 Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Erich Dollansky < > erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 24 February 2012 04:21:12 Peter Maloney wrote: > > > Am 23.02.2012 21:15, schrieb Mark Felder: > > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:25:01 -0600, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote: > > Let me suggest this. > > > > Currently, we have on the disk normally two kernels. The current one and > > the last one. Why not add a third one called testing? > > > > Add then an entry into the boot menu that users can switch between the > > current kernel and a kernel they just installed for testing. > > > > Well, as you would want to test both kernel + userland its get a bit tricky > on ufs based system, as you have to setup several slices/partitions. For > ZFS its easier, as the only thing required would be a snapshot of clean > install, which the user then can just zfs recv, modify vfs.root.mountfrom > and so on. > /usr/local for the current system and /usr/localtest for the other system. Of course, the same for /bin, /etc ... It is not that difficult. Or a script which renames the directories for the next start. Erich
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