From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 07:37:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02972 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA02542 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:35:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 11544 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Mar 1998 15:35:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19980316163512.22587@paert.tse-online.de> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:35:12 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change References: <199803161333.FAA14802@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199803161333.FAA14802@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:33:25AM -0800 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:33:25AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > - Keep; we have already deployed and changing back would be expensive. today. various machines. > - Keep; the new approach allows us extra flexibility and consistency. further on I second this ..., > - Keep; the compatibility slice is an abomination and we never use it. ... and this, too. ~~~~ snip ~~~~~ snip ~~~~~ now my personal comment: As mentioned above our -stable machines were upgraded over the last weekend. The transition was much more smooth than expected (regarding the all the hassles reported on the mailing list). OK. This time I 'really' made sure that 'installworld' had run without any suspicious errors or warnings and that the fresh kernel was _really_ in the right place. Andreas -- /// TSE TeleService GmbH | Gsf: Arne Reuter | /// Hovestrasse 14 | Andreas Braukmann | We do it with /// D-48351 Everswinkel | HRB: 1430, AG WAF | FreeBSD/SMP /// ------------------------------------------------------------------- /// PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key /// Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message