Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which FBSD 4-8 have been). I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.24 17:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready for production or should I wait a while yet? This probably won't help much, but I wouldn't call any system production ready until I've tested it as thoroughly as possible and

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/24/2012 11:19 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: I wouldn't blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds. In general, I'd agree with you. Certainly, that's been the case with Linux, AIX, and so on over the

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 11/24/2012 11:19 AM, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: I wouldn't blindly trust and drop an operating system on production servers, no matter how good the feedback from outside my organization sounds. In general, I'd agree with you. Certainly, that's been

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/11/2012 16:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. 9-STABLE works for me. I've run into a few quite

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/24/2012 03:48 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up with a complete rat's nest of

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Shane Ambler
On 25/11/2012 04:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote: But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just fine. For example, will my make.conf

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/24/2012 05:58 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/24/2012 06:16 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 25/11/2012 04:06, Tim Daneliuk wrote: But I have had essentially no problems doing in-place major rev updates with FreeBSD thus far. The only breakage I am worried about now is whether the new compiler change breaks things that used to work just

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/24/2012 03:48 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system: you will still have to re-install all of your ports. Otherwise, as you end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Eric S Pulley
--On November 24, 2012 10:38:35 AM -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 November 2012, at 16:36, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/24/2012 05:58 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for