From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 09:48:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E001065670 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:48:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alteriks@gmail.com) Received: from mail.agora.pl (mail.agora.pl [193.42.230.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9C8FC1A for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zcs01.agora.pl (vzcs03.agora.pl [10.205.98.92]) by mail.agora.pl (8.13.8/8.11.1) with ESMTP id o2N9CmYu017923; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:49 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zcs01.agora.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19BD119B4; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zcs01.agora.pl Received: from zcs01.agora.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zcs01.agora.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VVErzYberUnH; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from t42.localnet (unknown [10.201.55.171]) by zcs01.agora.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 012F9119B5; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:45 +0100 (CET) From: "alteriks@gmail.com" To: Dan Naumov Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:12:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.30-1-686; KDE/4.3.4; i686; ; ) References: <684e57ec1003221341s241c6d4fl9f2afa411c55d697@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201003231012.43616.alteriks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Can't boot after make installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:48:14 -0000 On Monday, 22 of March 2010 22:55:17 Dan Naumov wrote: > > I've read that FreeBSD kernel supports 3D acceleration in ATI R7xx > > chipset and as I own motherboard with HD3300 built-in I thought that I > > would give it a try. I upgraded to see if there is any progress with > > =BFzfs? I don't really know if it's zfs related, but at certain load, my > > system crashes, and reboots. It happens only when using bonnie++ to > > benchmark I/O. And I'm a little bit to lazy to prepare my system for > > coredumps - I don't have swap slice for crashdumps, because I wanted > > to simplify adding drives to my raidz1 configuration. Could anyone > > tell me what's needed, besides having swap to produce good crashdump? >=20 > As of right now, even if you don't care about capability to take crash > dumps, it is highly recommended to still use traditional swap > partitions even if your system is otherwise fully ZFS. There are know > stability problems involving using a ZVOL as a swap device. These > issues are being worked on, but this is still the situation as of now. >=20 > > At first I didn't knew that I am upgrading to bleeding edge/developer > > branch of FreeBSD. I'll come straight out with it, 8.0-STABLE sounds > > more stable than 8.0-RELEASE-p2, which I was running before upgrade ;) > > I'm a little confused with FreeBSD release cycle at first I compared > > it with Debian release cycle, because I'm most familiar to it, and I > > used it a lot before using FreeBSD. Debian development is more > > one-dimensional - unstable/testing/stable/oldstable whereas FreeBSD > > has two stable branches - 8.0 and 7.2 which are actively developed. > > But still I am confused with FreeBSD naming and it's relation with > > tags which are used in standard-supfile. We have something like this: > > 9.0-CURRENT -> tag=3D. > > 8.0-STABLE -> tag=3DRELENG_8 > > 8.0-RELEASE-p2 -> tag=3DRELENG_8_0 ? (btw what does p2 mean?) > > If someone patient could explain it to me I'd be grateful. >=20 > 9-CURRENT: the real crazyland > 8-STABLE: a dev branch, from which 8.0 was tagged and eventually 8.1 will > be RELENG_8_0: 8.0-RELEASE + latest critical security and reliability > updates (8.0 is up to patchset #2, hence -p2) >=20 > Same line of thinking applies to 7-STABLE, 7.3-RELEASE and so on. >=20 >=20 > - Sincerely, > Dan Naumov >=20 Thanks for clarifying. I will try turning swap ASAP.