Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7

[Aristedes Maniatis]

On 14/08/09 11:12 AM, Dan Allen wrote:
> I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week.  This has served me well
> (except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed
> out) for quite a while.
>
> I like to track a STABLE release.  When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2,
> it all just happened automatically with the way I do things.
>
> Now I am interested on one of my BSD machines to try 8.0.  I need to
> change my cvsup target from RELENG_7 to CURRENT I believe.  Is that
> true?  When will STABLE become 8.0?

Since I see you are updating from 7 to 8 and are running ZFS, you may be bitten by the fact that ZFS will not work after you install the new kernel. See the last comment here:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html

Ari

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