Add the most vital piece of information WRT upgrading past the
statfs changes: you must have COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in your kernel config file. Everything else is documented procedure and will not save your ass if you don't have the option.
This commit is contained in:
parent
02c1c7070e
commit
3f631d528c
Notes:
svn2git
2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=122709
16
UPDATING
16
UPDATING
@ -24,11 +24,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
|
||||
`make world' as the new kernel will know about binaries using
|
||||
the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will not know
|
||||
about the new system calls that support the new statfs
|
||||
structure. Running an old kernel after a `make world' will
|
||||
cause programs such as `df' that do a statfs system call to
|
||||
fail with a bad system call. Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com>
|
||||
also reports that cfsd (ports/security/cfs) needs to be
|
||||
recompiled after these changes are installed.
|
||||
structure.
|
||||
Note that the backwards compatibility is only present when the
|
||||
kernel is configured with the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option. Since
|
||||
even /bin/sh will not run with a new kernel without said option
|
||||
you're pretty much dead in the water without it. Make sure you
|
||||
have COMPAT_FREEBSD4!
|
||||
Running an old kernel after a `make world' will cause programs
|
||||
such as `df' that do a statfs system call to fail with a bad
|
||||
system call. Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com> also reports
|
||||
that cfsd (ports/security/cfs) needs to be recompiled after
|
||||
these changes are installed.
|
||||
|
||||
****************************DANGER*******************************
|
||||
|
||||
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue
Block a user