Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:09:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jrhett@netconsonance.com, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <200806072209.m57M9JX7023171@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <D4FFD9ED-8694-4950-8317-D9359ECCFEE3@netconsonance.com>
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Jo Rhett wrote: > Ken Smith wrote: > > As for re-defining extended support to mean 4 or 5 years instead of > > just > > two it's not clear us doing that (except for anomolies like 4.11) is > > really in your best interests. :-) > > 2 years would be perfectly fine in my mind. I'd love to see 2 years > of support for 6.2-RELEASE. > > 6.2 was (and *is* AFAIK) the most stable release of FreeBSD since 4.11 > and it came out the door with less than 12 months of support intended. I'm running various FreeBSD versions on lots of machines at customers and our own offices. Among them are about 40 servers with various types of bge(4) chips, and some machines use gmirror. AFAIK we don't have machines with 3ware adapters, so I can't comment on that. But the bge(4) driver runs better with 6.3, 7.0 and 6/7-stable than it did with 6.2. We never had any gmirror problems, so it's neither worse nor better. It just works as expected. Overall I regard *both* 6.3 and 7.0 more stable than 6.2. I'm in the process of bringing most machines to 7.0 or 7-stable, and so far it goes very well. In some cases the performance has noticably improved, especially on multicore servers. I haven't experienced any stability problems so far. I'm with FreeBSD since 2.0.5-Release. I think 7.0 is the most stable dot-zero release that the project ever had. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
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