From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 18 6:45:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D9D37B404 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ene.asda.gr (ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CE643E75 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lefty@ene.asda.gr) Received: from ene.asda.gr (lefty.ene.asda.gr [193.92.118.162]) by ene.asda.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9453FEB; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:45:36 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3DD8FD18.C5BFAEA4@ene.asda.gr> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:45:44 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis Organization: ASDA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Ceri Davies , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server orDesktopOS?) References: <20021118093226.E23359-100000@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > The only changes made to RELENG_4_7 (in the past month) have been for > critical security related issues (ie. the bind8 vulnerability) ... If in the past month that is what was only needed in order to maintain stability then I personally have no objection to that. I actually like it very much. It would make me very jumpy if I had a tested well behaved production server and every so often had to patch it with not so very critical updates. However, it would make me a lot jumpier if I had a need for a critical update and none was available, but from what I read so far, it doesn't happen every so often. > -STABLE and -CURRENT appear to be the only ones that are actively > maintained ... I definitely only play with -CURRENT on my laptop, as I > don't need it for anything critical ... I do run -STABLE on a dozen or so > desktop and server machines at the University without problems, but the > most loaded one is my internet gateway, so there isn't much in the way of > 'non-kernel' software running on that ... I'm a little nervous, now, for > bringing our new mail server online / to full capacity, since there will > be >4000 users hitting it, but we'll see what happens ... I now what you mean. This is what I also plan on doing with a few critical task servers with pretty much the same amount of load you have in one of them if not even more. I am nervous myself after reading all this. I guess the only thing that would convince me would be a real time test with a good and fast failover/backup solution just in case things get messy. It basically is as you said though, "we'll see what happens ..." Regards, Lefteris Tsintjelis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message