On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I suspect that Jordan would shoot someone who suggested a MFC before
> > 4.3 is out.
>
> It needs more work, too. If you try to use an old fsck with the new kernel,
> then the old fsck will clobber some new variables in the superblock. Then the
> new kernel will panic later on instead of doing a sanity check on the new
> values in the superblock and falling back to defaults if they are bogus. This
> is a major POLA bug and the changes shouldn't go into 4.x unless this is fixed.
> This breaks the recommended method of updating stable by doing the installworld
> after rebooting into a new kernel.
On other hand, it makes some troubles if filesystem is shared
between 4.x and -current :)
--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/
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