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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2003-11-13 00:10:43 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2003-11-13 00:10:43 +0000
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Warn that you won't be able to build a kernel if you do an installworld
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=122591
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@@ -18,14 +18,22 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
to maximize performance.
20031112:
- The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to allow
- accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem sizes. You should
- build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a `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.
+ The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to
+ allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem
+ sizes. You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a
+ `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.
+
+ ****************************DANGER*******************************
+
+ DO NOT make installworld after the buildworld w/o building and
+ installing a new kernel FIRST. You will be unable to build a
+ new kernel otherwise on a system with new binaries and an old
+ kernel.
20031112:
Some netgraph string length constants have been changed. This