FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> How/where should we be reporting such bugs?  I reported a *very* easy to 
> reproduce hang situation with unionfs in BETA1 (and have 
> updated/retested as I see commits going through) over a week ago, and 
> the biggest 'interest' I got out of it was from Robert Watson giving me 
> suggestions on other stuff to provide :(

The BUGS section of mount_unionfs(8) still applies -- I was primarily 
interested in whether the problem you experienced occurred in the absense 
of a documented broken feature, which it turned out noto.  I suggest you 
see if you can interest Jeff Roberson in the problems, as they're most 
likely a result of VFS locking changes.  I know he's done quite a bit of 
work to get nullfs working better, and likely the changes to nulfs also 
need to be propagated and merged into unionfs.

Robert N M Watson


>
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ken Smith wrote:
>
>> 
>> Announcement
>> ------------
>> 
>> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the 
>> availability
>> of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2.
>> 
>> Because suitable pre-build packages are not widely available (see the
>> Known Issues section below) BETA2 only has disc1 and bootonly ISOs
>> available, and there are no FTP install trees.
>> 
>> We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be 
>> identified
>> and worked out.  Availability of ISO images is given below.  If you have
>> an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based
>> upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6 (though that will change for the
>> Release Candidates later).  Problem reports can be submitted using the
>> send-pr(1) command.
>> 
>> The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the
>> todo list:
>> 
>> 	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html
>> 
>> Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough
>> idea for some of the dates.  The current rough schedule is available
>> but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined":
>> 
>> 	http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html
>> 
>> Known Issues
>> ------------
>> 
>> Prebuilt packages are not available at this time due to the recent bump
>> of shared library version numbers.  The installation procedure will
>> fail to install things normally present as packages (e.g. perl).  There
>> is a full ports tree available so you can build anything you want to
>> use from that.
>> 
>> Availability
>> ------------
>> 
>> The BETA2 ISOs are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites.  A list
>> of the mirror sites is available here:
>> 
>>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
>> 
>> The MD5s are:
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 800d6bf84642ade264fce2594b783136
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 12cbc4fbf616a8a6c70184aaa3e389a4
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4e027ebc30157677464e8a4766d6f924
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 2e54efd31dc63dadf5b68b4345233611
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 70129bbc9e490836de7544230b6bc6fb
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3b1917c8143cbc99b22fc50e405c710f
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 60a277555ae190b30113cd2fab9a3d64
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = a89acc0a1493b8c4d3786ddef33bdf42
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 85d0f5d14d0e8b1697aa2c4dcdf73f68
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = bfca0ea211c1f977204b9677720289db
>> 
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = a79dae4b17b14dda908b84ac388a411b
>>  MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 6aaefe58e249057d4b7d2418ec1c52c5
>> 
>> -ken
>> 
>
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