On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote:
Although I havn't seen any major problems on our servers, all using u320
scsi and smp - I don't feel as secure about my choice of upgrading to
5.x. We still have some 4.x servers in production, and judging by how
this is evolving, I think I'll rather skip the 5-branch for those
machines and keep testing 6.x. The last thing we need is servers with
problems to disturb our sleep at night.
Overall I think we're a few of the lucky ones, as alot of people seem to
have huge problems which we havn't encountered, again that is because of
different architectures and such.
Actually, I think you're part of the silent majority who find it works
fine in their environment. We use RELENG_5 at work on a number of
machines, and I work with several companies and organizations who do, and
have no problems at all. The edge cases seem to be:
- High load environments, or high load testing.
- Hardware that isn't part of the regular testing that FreeBSD developers
do as part of their work, likely because they don't have the hardware.
- Less commonly deployed features -- i.e., IPX, which has experienced
serious functional problems in RELENG_5 until a few months ago.
Interestingly, resulting from a compiler change, not network stack
changes...
Robert N M Watson
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