From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 16:51:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DCCAC6 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:51:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F8F8FC0C for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAOGcdjD051400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ozzie.tundraware.com [192.168.0.1]); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:41 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: qAOGcdjD051400 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:51:53 -0000 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 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. In a related note, if I do move to 9.x is it sufficient to grab the appropriate source tree and compile world and kernels, install and reboot? That is, it is reasonable to do an in-place upgrade. This is how I migrated 4->6, 6->7, and 7->8 and I am hoping this is till the case since a complete reinstall is painful and slow. TIA, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/