Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:06:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Smooth upgrade to 2.0.5 from latest SNAP - HOW ? Message-ID: <18204.801950767@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 95 10:34:37 EDT." <199505311434.KAA24385@haven.ios.com>
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> Will the ususal scheme with untarring bin/kernel src/recompiling > play as it used to be ? Erm.. No. :-( > Are there any significant changes in the FS formats ( I've heard > about table of bad blocks - is this new ? Will the old FS work > in this case ? )... It will work, but you will get warnings spewed at you every time you boot up. We went to a new "Slices" paradigm (where's that slice.doc, Poul & Bruce?? :-) which has made laying down your partitions again a pretty good idea! > I have already 2 FreeBSD servers with total of 4.000 accounts , > so that's really important for me ( anyways, the systems have > 1-2G primary HDD with the system itself, and 4G secondary with > user partitions , so probably I'll be able to get new 1G SCSI , > install the system and all apps on it and just swap the disks, > so the downtime will be some 5 minutes ). Backups! :-) Jordan
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