From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 6 2:26:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4537B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f16APwB33054; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:25:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: chris@aims.com.au Cc: sheldonh@uunet.co.za, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md, current and stable In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:23:59 +1100." <004a01c09026$ec0261f0$020aa8c0@aims.private> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:25:58 +0100 Message-ID: <33052.981455158@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <004a01c09026$ec0261f0$020aa8c0@aims.private>, "Chris Knight" writes: >Howdy, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:sheldonh@uunet.co.za] >> Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 20:38 >> To: chris@aims.com.au >> Cc: phk@freebsd.org; current@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: md, current and stable >> >> >> On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:34:39 +1100, "Chris Knight" wrote: >> >> > Since the new md was introduced, it is not possible to >> build a -current >> > snapshot on a -stable box. Are there any plans to MFC this soon? >> >> Woah, what's the problem? This sounds like something that should be >> fixed, not covered up with an MFC. >> >When -current's release scripts were cut over to use mdconfig due to PHK's >death warrant notice of vn, vnconfig and MFS, release builds stopped working >on -stable due to -stable's md driver not having a handler for /dev/mdctl. >As vn + friends are disappearing, it makes sense for md to be MFCed, thus >fixing the problem. Somebody with a stable machine: try it and send patches. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message