Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: new partition ID
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Eric Delcamp <edelcamp@ibiscus.no.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/20/1998 12:22:06
Hi !

I find that UVM work really well on my system.
Some minors bugs (maybe one in 'ps aux' STARTED field), but no crash.
I'm working with UVM + XFree + Netscape + NFS + INN.

Try it ;-))

> > > Can we expect a -current i386 snapshot sometime soon that supports it ?
> > 
> > I will be building a -current snapshot as soon a UVM gets a bit more
> > stable.
> 
> Uh, UVM is experimental right now, and probably will be for at least a
> while yet.  I'd say that it makes a _lot_ of sense to generate an
> i386 -current snapshot without UVM (but with the rest of the changes
> in -current), so that people can do the right things with their disks
> and not have to worry about UVMs possible instabilities (yet).
> 
> Yeah, sure, we want to get UVM tested, but like it or not people have
> to run -current on "stable-ish" machines, and they shouldn't _have_ to
> switch to UVM until it's known to be pretty stable.
> 
> cgd