From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 16:14:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4A2106564A for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com (mail-pz0-f44.google.com [209.85.210.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198448FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so1617197pzk.3 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:14:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=c3rK+/DfB6xiNsFXHCqk6IcDtJxTANQ4zruybRUDl0o=; b=a8yhp7HkIVdXYIM0gZWzF5H/57Ksyx2pE/M4or6192mWX34NiA3CRJHq22zJPaJ8/D 3qettJr79FOaBpcj5IIKJLPnqX7FbF6hKO+gCXY/ZVnNiOKKgj9xi0FnqlW6JFtJAfON myBmMdE/cc5ITzCso3oPzTR5V1qws8csAJpkA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.13.103 with SMTP id g7mr18234172pbc.59.1322149837173; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:50:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: pldrouin@gmail.com Received: by 10.68.51.227 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:50:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20174.26176.829562.460613@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20111124150901.GK87561@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20174.26176.829562.460613@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:50:37 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: haUpdymuBrSxoqmAQDqNpGnC_hc Message-ID: From: Pierre-Luc Drouin To: Albert Shih Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.4 -> 8.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:14:26 -0000 On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Albert Shih writes: > >> =A0Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with >> =A08.2 kernel? > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0My gut reaction was "Are you familiar with the game of Rus= sian > Roulette?". > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Robert Huf= f > I would definitely test it on another machine beforehand, including tests of the services which are running in the jails. It would probably be safer to make a copy of the drive from that server, put it on another machine, upgrade everything, then take the server offline, rsync the user data and swap the drives... Pierre-Luc Drouin