Re: Laptop update...

From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:11:38 +0100
Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:41:51 +0100
>>From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk>
>>
>>Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:06:03 +0100
>>>>From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk>
>>>>
>>>>Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the
>>>>>past week?
>>>>
>>>>Note that mine is RELENG, not CURRENT. I'm happy to migrate if its
>>>>thought useful.
>>>
>>>
>>>RELENG or RELEASE? I really can't recommend RELEASE for a laptop because
>>>so many fixes have been made since then to CardBus, interrupt routing,
>>>and several other things. Current is a bit of a crap-shoot, but is
>>>semi-frozen at this time and is generally pretty stable.
>>
>>RELENG.
> 
> 
> Slightly better than release, but mostly just RELEASE+Security patches,
> so the CardBus and devd fixes and enhancements are not there. Current is
> a little bit frightening, but I would not try running RELEASE on a
> laptop and RELENG_5_0 does not really look much better.
> 
> One minor note: current newfs now defaults to UFS2. This is probably no
> problem, but it does make rolling back to V4 pretty difficult. Existing
> UFS1 partitions are unaffected.

This is not an issue for me, I haven't ever had 4 on this laptop. I
believe I heard 5.1 is in the works - perhaps I should just hang fire
for that? Any idea what the ETA is?

Cheers,

Ben.

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