From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 11:23:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D092A16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:23:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4A543FCB for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:23:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730B11FF90C; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:23:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id E4F6F1FF90A; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:23:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id A6C32154E2; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C763153FA; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:23:26 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Kirk McKusick In-Reply-To: <200311121855.hACItAaG006605@beastie.mckusick.com> Message-ID: References: <200311121855.hACItAaG006605@beastie.mckusick.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:23:43 -0000 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Kirk McKusick wrote: > The statfs structure was updated on Nov 11th with 64-bit fields > to allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem sizes. > > You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a `make world' > as the new kernel will know about binaries using the old statfs > structure, but an old kernel will not know about the new system > calls that support the new statfs structure. Running an old kernel > after a `make world' will cause programs such as `df' that do a > statfs system call to fail with a bad system call. shouldn't in addition to this mail requested by Scott UPDATING also be updated ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/