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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:48:14 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
Message-ID:  <BFF61274-C192-4361-9DEB-93DED2E02CA7@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org>
References:  <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org>

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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





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