On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 10:32:09 +0930, Phil Kernick wrote: > Aragon Gouveia wrote: >> Ideally you should build, install, and boot your new kernel before >> installing your new world. If your new kernel fails to boot for whatever >> reason, you can easily boot the old kernel and have a fully functional >> system again. If you installworld before verifying your new kernel, you >> could run into worse problems if your new kernel doesn't load and you >> have to boot the old kernel with your new world. > > The only problem that I have with this approach, is that I keep all of my > source on a vinum raid-5 volume. If I reboot before doing a make > installworld, then there is always the possibility that with the new kernel > and the old world I may not be able to mount the volume. So I always > shutdown but *not* reboot before doing the installworld.
I don't anticipate any problems with Vinum after an upgrade. The on-disk format has never changed, and though it's possible in the future, I'd hope it would do so in a compatible manner. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
