From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 18 03:44:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14746 for current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genghis.eng.demon.net (genghis.eng.demon.net [193.195.45.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA14741 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genghis.eng.demon.net [193.195.45.10] by genghis.eng.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wpAWB-0001MY-00; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:44:11 +0100 To: Jaye Mathisen cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would you trust -current now? Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:14:01 PDT." Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:44:11 +0100 From: Ade Lovett Message-Id: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye Mathisen writes: > >I can't wait any longer for 2.2.2 to get fixed, I either gotta switch to >what I hope is a fixed 3.0 kernel, or move to a different OS. > >Would you trust -current on a moderately highvolume news server >with NFS? Depends how you define 'trust' -- if you're looking for something that just is never, ever, ever going to crash, then probably not. If, on the other hand, you accept that 3.0-current will occasionally crash and burn, possibly taking the entire system with it, with a resultant complete system rebuild, then maybe. As it says in the handbook, there are (and indeed, cannot be) guarantees with -current, it's a rapidly changing target. Of course, some of the commercial OSes are no better, and some are an awful lot worse ... pause for breath.. no, I am not going to let myself start ranting about Sun.. no no no :) At the end of the day though, it's your call. If 2.2.2-release doesn't work for you (for whatever reason), then you have the choices you have already mentioned.. stick with FreeBSD by trying 3.0-current, or move to another OS. No-one but you yourself can make that decision, since only you can determine the pros and cons for your own environment. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.