From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 23:48:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B01C1065675 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E04A8FC1B for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m54NmKNr073208; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.87 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.87 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=0.570] Message-Id: From: Jo Rhett To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:14 -0700 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:48:22 -0000 On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Scott Long wrote: > Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? gmirror failures, 3ware raid driver timeouts, bge0 problems. All three in production use on dozens of systems. >> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and >> money for any business to handle this ugprade. It totally >> understand obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out. But 6.2 is barely a >> year old... > > The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch > will have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk. That's my expectation as well. The 6.3 degression has been somewhat surprising. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness