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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2003-11-17 23:25:16 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2003-11-17 23:25:16 +0000
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Clarify UPDATING language: do buildworld before buildkernel, and
do installkernel before installworld, rather than don't make world before installkernel. Pointed out by: gad
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@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
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
+ sizes. You should build world, then build and boot the new kernel
+ BEFORE doing a `installworld' 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.
Note that the backwards compatibility is only present when the
kernel is configured with the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option. Since
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