From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 16 11:41:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05290 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05284 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:41:23 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02215 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:41:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <353650CB.5FAD74C6@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:41:15 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Should I run -CURRENT? SNAP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I've been watching this list for a while now... My FreeBSD box is currently a dual P-Pro 200 with 192Mb of RAM and running 2.2.6-R. I use it mainly for mail, apache (and Apache-SSL), heavily for Samba - and also for some pretty scary shell scripts (basic data manipulation building web pages etc.) I would like to use the second processor - but I'm a bit worried about all my data... I do regular backups - but the machine houses some 18Gb of data spread accross an aging collection of IDE and SCSI drives - which are used via a 100Mbit link fxp card and Samba. I've seen a lot of problems with SoftUpdates going around recently - some of my drives are CCD based, so I would be avoiding stuff like that... What I'm trying to get at - is it a good idea? - The box isn't _mission_ critical, I don't mind it crashing, panicing etc. - but I'd rather not have the filesystems hosed... With this in mind can anyone offer any advice? - i.e. some good SNAP's to try etc? - I've read all the impending doom FAQ's on the FreeBSD site - and I have a working knowledge of 'c' and making worlds etc... :-) If I find a SNAP that works well is it likely to stay 'working well' (I know, how longs a piece of string?) - or am I better off staying 'really' current? I have run -CURRENT before, but only on an old 486 which whilst it could run it - would take days and days to do any makeworlds... :-( Oh for SMP-Stable... Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message