Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:44:49 -0500 From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" <fosburgh@flash.net> To: <wonko@entropy.tmok.com> Cc: <drek@zupa.bigstudios.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <029001bfcfef$ad74a760$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> References: <200006061925.PAA03258@entropy.tmok.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko@users.tmok.com> To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" <fosburgh@flash.net> Cc: <drek@zupa.bigstudios.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 2:25 PM Subject: Re: softupdates > Jonathan Fosburgh drunkenly mumbled... > > FYI, I have been bit by this bug too, with softupdates enabled. > > Fortunately, most of /var survived, unfortunately, /var/db/pkg was hosed and > > fsck still can't clean it. For the most part, however, softupdates have > > only been helpful. I only loose data now if I have a panic (which I don't > > think has happened since I upgraded to 4.0 some time ago), X locks up, or > > there was a power outage right at a time when a file was being updated. > > Without softupdates, I often would loose a number of files in the above > > cases, now maybe one, and that is rare. > > so this says to me i want to start using softupdates. this machine has never > paniced besides the floppy instance. so i'm not expecting to have much > trouble, rather, when i do have trouble, i want to minimize the damage. > > should i consider upgrading from 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable? what is the > best way to go about this with minimum downtime? should i even bother with > make buildworld;make kernel;make installworld;mergemaster;etc.. or should i > just pop the 4.0-release cd in and do an upgrade. > > thanks, > > -brian > I did a source upgrade from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-RELEASE using the instructions in src/UPDATING. If you do a source upgrade MAKE SURE you follow the instructions to the letter. You might also look in the archives as several people posted instructions on their websites. These can be used to augment the instructions in UPDATING if you want clarification. In particular, if you go to -RELEASE, I believe the instructions were presented in a rather confusing format (placing subsets of instructions out of order, for instance.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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