Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:05:32 -0700 From: Eric S Pulley <pulley@dabus.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Message-ID: <ACDAE5B594CAD35F472845B3@morbius.dabus.com> In-Reply-To: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com>
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--On November 24, 2012 10:38:35 AM -0600 Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that > provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not > a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which > FBSD 4-8 have been). > > I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready > for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 > releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. > > In a related note, if I do move to 9.x is it sufficient to grab the > appropriate source tree and compile world and kernels, install and > reboot? That is, it is reasonable to do an in-place upgrade. This > is how I migrated 4->6, 6->7, and 7->8 and I am hoping this is till > the case since a complete reinstall is painful and slow. > I upgraded to 9 on a server that is basically doing what yours is. I used freebsd-update and it did all the right things no problems. Been running on 9 without any issues pretty much since it came out. However, the only thing remotely fancy I'm doing is running root ZFS and link aggregation on my NIC's.home | help
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