From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 10:25:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15687106568D; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:25:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415D18FC16; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:25:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-95-82.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.95.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m559u73q059599 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:26:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:25:52 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <84EBEA5D3A1F47E79E8E12C4CF4D0314@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2126512.FmOUpo1CoD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200806051926.01116.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Jo Rhett , Edwin Groothuis , Doug Barton , Steven Hartland Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:25:09 -0000 --nextPart2126512.FmOUpo1CoD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: > I mean, seriously, I know the majority of you are happy rebooting > your systems 5x daily to run the latest. I'll do that with my home > system, no problem. But I can't do this in a production environment. I have 3ware based RELENG_6 systems running without trouble but I don't=20 load them very much. I think the only way forward would be to do a binary search to find the=20 broken code - that means someone who experiences the problem needs to=20 do the testing... I know doing a binary search IS a PITA timewise but since noone seems to=20 know what the underlying problem is it would seem to be the only way=20 forward. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2126512.FmOUpo1CoD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIR7gx5ZPcIHs/zowRAtV8AKCQ7pe4buXAhNqTI6sixwbcnAZTkQCfUZqD P5GqNosyM/8wmsL1PYsllGg= =uv1D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2126512.FmOUpo1CoD--