From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:28:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E1416A415 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:28:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F4CC43DDA for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:27:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan@digitaldaemon.com) Received: (qmail 72321 invoked by uid 98); 20 Dec 2006 16:59:04 -0000 Received: from 63.105.9.34 by digitaldaemon.com (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.87/1195. Clear:RC:1(63.105.9.34):. Processed in 0.301075 secs); 20 Dec 2006 16:59:04 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jan@digitaldaemon.com via digitaldaemon.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(63.105.9.34):. Processed in 0.301075 secs) Received: from digitaldaemon.com (HELO ?184.157.101.2?) (63.105.9.34) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2006 16:59:03 -0000 Message-ID: <45896BD5.9030402@digitaldaemon.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:59:01 -0500 From: Jan Knepper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <4585A6B0.6010800@digitaldaemon.com> <45862C79.9080204@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <45862C79.9080204@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:28:38 -0000 Thanks! Any specific procedure you followed? I tried: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt But that does seem to have some minor problems as audit does not exist in /etc/group for instance. Thanks! Jan Eric Anderson wrote: > On 12/17/06 14:21, Jan Knepper wrote: >> Hi... >> >> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running >> jails with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5. >> >> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious >> gotcha's? >> >> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron >> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives) >> >> Thanks! >> Jan > > 6-STABLE is very solid. I've upgraded about 20 systems from 5.x to > 6.x. One thing I did on all of them was to go to the latest 5-STABLE > code first, then hop to 6-STABLE. I highly recommend 6-STABLE for the > many many UFS/VFS bug fixes. > > Eric > > >