From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 00:47:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A891616A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1AB43D31 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from europa.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AjwyX-0008Dw-8G for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:47:37 +0100 Message-ID: <4010DF2B.1070804@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:45:31 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:47:47 -0000 Hi list, I am considering switching our "production" server from 4.9 to 5.2. "production" means that it serves some 20 people at our university institute. Unfortunately the machine crashes occasionally which would be tolerable if it was up again immediately. However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it fscks in the background. The machine is an ASUS A7V333 with AMD XP 1800+ and 512 MB RAM, 3ware 7500 RAID. It provides the 'usual' services: - NFS - Samba - IMAP - SMTP - LPD printing - Mailman - HTTP - Postgres - LDAP User, mail aliases, automount info - IMP Webmail So, no fancy hard- or software, i guess. Would it be very hazardous to sitch to 5.2 already now? Another thing: Is there any point in converting the filesystems to UFS2 (in a later step)? Thanks for any insight, Heinrich -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341