Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:06:14 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change Message-ID: <l03130300b13423dde761@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <350DE4EC.7ECE44C@dal.net> References: <199803161333.FAA14802@dingo.cdrom.com>
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At 8:50 PM -0600 3/16/98, Studded wrote: >Strong vote for keeping it in. In my mind (and with all due respect to >those involved) the problems we've seen were caused by too little >notice, too little regression testing, and too few people reading the >right lists at all. It seems to me that the bugs have been worked out of >the thing, and we have an opportunity to shout the news from the I believe that this is incorrect. I, am I am sure others who might not be so vocal, have a configuration that I don't know how to use with the new kernel. As I understand it, Mike understands the problem but does not (yet) have a solution short of reformatting the HD. > That said, I did think of another way to handle the problem of a >mismatch between a new kernel and an old mount. Put the test for most up >to date mount version that someone suggested previously into >/usr/sbin/config. If the user is about to do damage, config should bomb >loud and ugly with the appropriate information. In fact, this method >could be extensible to other cases in the future with a little thought. >:) This is not a version mismatch problem. I have the latest (-stable) of everything. This includes the "mount", MAKEDEV, and kernel changes. All imagined sd0 entries are in /dev, etc. At a MINIMUM, I think that we need a script which will examine the HD's, the /dev tree and fstab and tell us what to change BEFORE we try to use it. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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