First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread
"Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box" a couple of weeks ago; after
disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and
doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be
completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the
problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-)
That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of
upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in
pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable,
though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and
if so, how should I do it?
My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm
still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I
can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an
issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier
to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of
the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks).
My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR,
and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that
I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something
during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break
existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is
Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it
would be a problem if there was extensive downtime.
Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or
some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade
(or choose to stay with the existing OS)?
Thanks,
Alex Kirk
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