On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:38, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > The technical reasons are very simple. If a new system call is > created, and programs use that new system call, then if you do an > installworld before you boot the kernel, that can result in binaries > not working. This has happened with important ones like /bin/sh in > the past. In addition, if you aren't running single user, many > different races exist in the installation process that can result in > bad behavior. There are also potential problems with symbols in > there's a large jump between the revisions being updated. > > Usually you can get away with it, but if you want to be safe, you must > do the install in single user. Usually, however, has lead in the past > to problems, which is why the project recommendations are > conservative. >
A auto-scripted install directly run from rc.d in single-user mode would cover both requirements - I seem to recall that Solaris had something like it at a point. Somewhat along the lines of nextboot would be nice. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
