> >> So, I think we'll just include a warning with 4.9: > >> > >> WARNING! > >> > >> Do not attempt to stress a FreeBSD 4.9 machine if you: > > > >or "Upgrade your FreeBSD to RedHat". > > s/RedHat/FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE/ > > >It's simple: we need to backout all these untested MFCs. > > Or fix the bugs. I don't know anything about the code in question, but > now that people are getting repeatable panics, I assume that tracking down > the bugs will be rather easier. > There was a time when STABLE absolutely needed to be stable, but I'm not > sure that's necessarily the case any more; now that we have all the > release/security branches, I think it's safe to say that most systems which > need absolute stability aren't going to be running STABLE.
But the security branches don't get bug fixes, only security fixes. So at the the end we don't have a branch for stability anymore. I think that is a step in the wrong direction. I think by the time we get to x.4 or x.5 of a branch, it should be rock stable and only get bug fixes, with maybe device drivers added. Big changes should be avoided. John -- John Hay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
