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Cc: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 7.4 -> 8.2
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Albert Shih writes:
>>
>>>  Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with
>>>  8.2 kernel?
>>
>>        My gut reaction was "Are you familiar with the game of Russian
>> Roulette?".
>>
>>
>>                                Robert Huff
>>
>
> I would definitely test it on another machine beforehand, including
> tests of the services which are running in the jails. It would
> probably be safer to make a copy of the drive from that server, put it
> on another machine, upgrade everything, then take the server offline,
> rsync the user data and swap the drives...

Testing seems like a good idea. Include "COMPAT_FREEBSD7" in you 8.2 kernel
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