From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 08:16:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4962816A41F for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AD543D49 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:16:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 55so926390wri for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:16:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fwt7ZVdDl/FJ3GqjPKULFmD8GijfL+0d2J+WUwlicHSRnQL8IiYXfOQWDTZSGQKqnHDDnWqm96nzjNN1lfCNOEJ5FMokputSQ9qnVPaimQbyZCt3M4TVKOMEQbMiVo+n5PCda+nbRMax5GFdzJopHz9fwA4qnKZvbAxgM+9oJOI= Received: by 10.54.29.50 with SMTP id c50mr2064352wrc; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.118.13 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:16:52 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen To: Igor Robul In-Reply-To: <42E48967.1020909@speechpro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200507211803.j6LI34dV005050@ferens.net> <20050721194500.W9208@fledge.watson.org> <20050721192613.GA61902@FS.denninger.net> <42E48967.1020909@speechpro.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Karl Denninger Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Claus Guttesen List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:16:54 -0000 > >How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a > >production release, breaking it, with no path backwards to the working > >code? > > > I had not ANY problems with ATA on several mothersboards, both SMP and > uniproc. I must say that I have had few problems using FreeBSD as my main OS. I've been using it as a nfs-server since the 5.2-alpha-days using a compaq smartarray (ciss) and a qlogic 2300 hba (isp) serving some TB of data. It was *rock-solid*. Longest uptime was 171 days when I tool it down for maintenance. I phased it out recently after almost two years of very reliable service. I had problems using the qlogic-hba on the amd64-port with 4 GB RAM on 5.4, and switched to the i386-port where it was very stable. Then I have 5.2 and 5.4 as a firewall (5.2 with ipfw/dummynet/ipf and 5.4 with pf) on ATA. The webserver started out as 5.1 on ATA and SCSI (amr). The webservers needed some tweaking to /boot/loader.conf, otherwise it would (re)boot without any notice or message. Other than that it's been very stable, only recently did I get some resettings on my em-onboard gb-nic on two particular servers. The others run fine. Then I use it as a samba- and imap-server and some troubleticketing. I had very few problems, I don't consider myself *that* lucky but knew that running alpha- and beta-versions of FreeBSD as a nfs-server was not without risk. But testing over and over made me confident that it was stable for my purpose. I haven't had the need to enter the SATA-area except for one webserver using a 3ware-card which was recommended by the vendor. This SATA-card haven't given me any problems. regards Claus