Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:04:33 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated. Message-ID: <14407.12709.371848.954058@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021725510.6279-100000@semuta.feral.com> References: <19991202202419.01433@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912021725510.6279-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob writes: > > > Can't you boot from the old kernel? Or have you already wiped the > > I can boot the old kernel. A MAKEDEV using the new MAKEDEV has now wiped > all block devs, so swapon, etc. ,fail.. However, this is the conundrum- > it's not safe to do a 'make installworld' on a two week old kernel, but > the new kernel with old mount, fsck, etc., obviously cannot cope with the > new 'raw-only' devices. > > An experience like this will move users to OpenBSD. This kind of jump up > is completely unacceptable. Slow down. You are getting screwed by a combination of things. It isn't all phk's fault. The bdev elimination is one factor, but the most important one (the fsck/mount segv) is due to int/long breakage introduced version 1.85 of mount.h. This happened at the worst possible time (just after the bdev elimination). If I wasn't such a timid committer, I would have just committed the damned fix yesterday, before running it by Kirk & you wouldn't have had this problem. I tried to be vocal about it (messages to -alpha and -committers), but I guss that wasn't enought. Sorry, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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