Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:20:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: bfoz@glue.umd.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <200003191820.LAA08229@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:26:20 EST." <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> References: <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org>
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In message <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> Brandon Fosdick writes: : I thought of that, but I didn't know what the devices w/o slice numbers : did. Guess I should have just tried it. Devices w/o slice numbers are the "compatibility" devices. These map to the first BSD partition on the disk. For most people, this is the only partition on the disk. It is a shame that you can't use them to mount / on / in an emergency. The consistancy checks won't let you. Mounting one file system read only and the other read/write is asking for trouble. But the trouble tends to manifest itself as the r/o file system not seeing the changes in the r/w file system. In olden days, this could cause a panic, but I've not seen such panics in a while. I don't know if this means that I'm lucky, or if the underlying problems have been corrected. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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