Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 20:55:57 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT4X and 5.x ... how backwards compatible? Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20040515205417.03f5c8e0@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040515151158.Q13297@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040515151158.Q13297@ganymede.hub.org>
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At 19:14 15/05/2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >I'm picking up some new servers, and want to start looking at migrating to >5.x from 4.x ... how viable is it to install 5.x on the new server, and >move an existing jail'd environment over to there and run it, with the 4.x >binaries/libraries inside of the jail? Is this "wishful thinking" on my >part, that this would be possible? As long as you mount an appropriate devfs inside each jail, this should be possible. I run RELENG_4_x jails inside a RELENG_5_2 system for the purpose of building binary updates, and I haven't had any problems yet. Colin Percival
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