On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:04:28 +0200 Marc Olzheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:42:45PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, > > >it was completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different > > >universes. > > > > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I > > think was called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of > > the OS do you feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ? > > Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the > following 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4: > > kern/80617: > Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS (Patches available) > Not exremely important: just don't do that. > > kern/79208: > i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf() (Fixed in RELENG_5) > PITA when running threaded calculations. > > kern/78824 > socketpair()/close() race condition (Fixed in CURRENT) > Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon. > > Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd > say stick with RELENG_5 for the time being. Given the choice, I can't see any reason not to run a system that is not using the current stable. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
