From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 16 07:40:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04173 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04086 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 07:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA27448; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:40:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:39:28 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Mike Smith cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change In-Reply-To: <199803161333.FAA14802@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike, While I had problems on our machines with the change, this was more related to some problems with the announcement, and a problem with an old MAKEDEV script. I do not think the changes are evil; I would recommend keeping them as long as we can make the upgrade as simple and smooth as possible. I would recommend sticking together an extremely simple and straightforward announcement describing the process for -stable users, and posting it to freebsd-announce. Clearly, not all -stable users are subscribed to freebsd-stable. This might reach them; it would also be a good place to point out that a subscription to freebsd-stable would be quite helpful for them. For the 2.2.6 upgrade -- as long as this is properly handled by sysinstall, and it notifies the user of what is happening, that should be fine. I vote for keeping the changes. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message