From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 28 10: 2:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A857D15048 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 10:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA01776; Sat, 29 May 1999 02:02:29 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <374D85CE.6FAC3AB8@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 02:50:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > You may not know - I did. Even things that were only read at startup > could generally be dealt with by restarting just the process that read > that. Of course, if that process was the kernel or init, you wound up > rebooting anyway. And in some cases, the chain of things that depended > on that change was complex enough that rebooting was simpler. You don't need to always reboot FreeBSD either. Of course, most people don't know when it's ok and when it is not. So, the same applies. > For yet another difference - not even Sun recommends installing > *every* fix. FreeBSD doesn't have any other option. Eh? We have the whole cvs available. You can easily make partial upgrades. > Note that I'm *not* proposing such a system for FreeBSD! Merely > pointing out that the differences is very noticable. Still not noticiable to me. It's a black box. Aside from saying "it takes much longer", there is not effective difference. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message