From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 10:12:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FC516A417 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:12:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from casper@web.am) Received: from mx1.web.am (mx1.web.am [217.113.0.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EE443D67 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from casper@web.am) Received: from antispam (localhost.web.am [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFFB62D2F for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:11:13 +0400 (AMT) Received: from localhost (localhost.web.am [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E2AB62340; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:52:14 +0400 (AMT) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (unknown [217.113.1.123]) by mx1.web.am (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CB461F25; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:04:54 +0400 (AMT) Message-ID: <457D033C.2000307@web.am> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:05:32 +0400 From: Gaspar Chilingarov User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0a1 (X11/20061118) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per olof Ljungmark References: <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mx1.web.am X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I an Idiot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:12:49 -0000 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi all, > > We're running around 25 FBSD servers, mostly 6 and a few 5-STABLE. For a > few months, we also run our internal storage/smb/whatnot machine on > -current. Never had ANY issues. Just works, and better than 6-*. > > Now, we are about to replace our MX's and I'm thinking of deploying > -current on them instead of upcoming 6.2. Right now running tests on the > hardware, two ProLiant DL360G3 cpu's and everything looks just fine. > > Am I an idiot or is anyone else out there running -current on production > systems? I figured if one MX goes haywire at least we've got another > one... Very interested in your opinion. > > Thanks /per At least it's fun to run -current on production servers :) In case if you can have hot-swap server to test upgrades there and you carefully watch this mailing list and can suspect which things will break after each upgrade and which - not, it's OK. Especially if you run opensource software, which can be recompiled at any moment, and you can easility change servers without disturbing working environment - why not? -- Gaspar Chilingarov System Administrator, Network security consulting t +37493 419763 (mob) i 63174784 e nm@web.am