7.4 -> 8.2

doug at safeport.com doug at safeport.com
Thu Nov 24 17:46:00 UTC 2011


On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Albert Shih writes:
>>
>>>  Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with
>>>  8.2 kernel?
>>
>>        My gut reaction was "Are you familiar with the game of Russian
>> Roulette?".
>>
>>
>>                                Robert Huff
>>
>
> I would definitely test it on another machine beforehand, including
> tests of the services which are running in the jails. It would
> probably be safer to make a copy of the drive from that server, put it
> on another machine, upgrade everything, then take the server offline,
> rsync the user data and swap the drives...

Testing seems like a good idea. Include "COMPAT_FREEBSD7" in you 8.2 kernel


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list