Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:45:44 +0200 From: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -STABLE was stable for long time (Re: FreeBSD: Server orDesktopOS?) Message-ID: <3DD8FD18.C5BFAEA4@ene.asda.gr> References: <20021118093226.E23359-100000@hub.org>
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"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
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