Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:24:47 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Call for opinion re: root device naming change Message-ID: <19980317122447.16138@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <350DE4EC.7ECE44C@dal.net>; from Studded on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:50:20PM -0800 References: <199803161333.FAA14802@dingo.cdrom.com> <350DE4EC.7ECE44C@dal.net>
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On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:50:20PM -0800, Studded wrote: > Strong vote for keeping it in. In my mind (and with all due respect to > those involved) the problems we've seen were caused by too little > notice, too little regression testing, and too few people reading the > right lists at all. It seems to me that the bugs have been worked out of > the thing, and we have an opportunity to shout the news from the > mountaintops before 2.2.6 goes golden. That combined with the "Important > upgrade info" page that is going to go into production prior to 2.2.6 > should put us in a good position. I would really hate to take a step > backward at this point, especially if there's a chance there will be > another release in the 2.2 branch. > > That said, I did think of another way to handle the problem of a > mismatch between a new kernel and an old mount. Put the test for most up > to date mount version that someone suggested previously into > /usr/sbin/config. If the user is about to do damage, config should bomb > loud and ugly with the appropriate information. In fact, this method > could be extensible to other cases in the future with a little thought. > :) I'm having a hard time seeing how this can be considered generic; e.g, I'm building most of my stuff for use on _other_ machines, and what I have installed locally is of little concern to the build. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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