Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 05:42:45 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current is Really Broken(tm) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809230534030.8011-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <2950.906542983@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > (if you are involved with devfs, libdisk or CAM it's important that you > > read this imo) > > If you want to test 3.0-current as it relates to 3.0-RELEASE, please > do not use DEVFS. It will not be the default in 3.0-RELEASE nor is it > even recommended for general use at this time. It's there the same > way that things like LFS and NFSv3 are there - available for people to > play with but not considered robust enough to use in anything but > purely experimental setups. There's lots of experimental code in > FreeBSD and we already know it blows up if you push on it, that's why > it's experimental. :-) Far better to work with the set of options > in GENERIC (or a subset thereof) and report problems you encounter > there. Those would be true priority issues for 3.0-RELEASE. > > - Jordan ok, but DEVFS is mmm mmm gewd. i would like to test it, it's going off my work machine, can't loose another day rebuiling a box again, but i'll continue to play at home with it. the offer remains if anyone wants any more info about these crashes, i'll semi freeze the home machine as i don't see anything going into DEVFS lately though. as a side note i've been using NFSv3 as a client with 3.0 and it seems kinda stable, had a crash or two the other day vie reading mail over a NFS drive but after a cvsup the problems went away. mmm, LFS... is that back in the tree again? doesn't seem so. :( thanks for the feedback, Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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