From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 7 21:14:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29361 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 21:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29352; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 21:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00809; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 00:14:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803080514.AAA00809@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Okay, -current should be conditionally safe to use In-Reply-To: <2649.889329889@gjp.erols.com> from Gary Palmer at "Mar 7, 98 11:04:49 pm" To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 00:14:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Palmer said: > "John S. Dyson" wrote in message ID > <199803080059.TAA00326@dyson.iquest.net>: > > It isn't ready for production yet. SoftUpdates is better -async, but still > > not as data-secure as normal mounts. I suggest waiting until late March or > > early April. The code is probably late Alpha or near-Beta quality, with > > some known problems. > > Apart from the problems with using Async & SoftUpdates together, what > other `known' problems are there? > There have still been some crashes. Don't use it in production until we have tested it enough. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message