From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 23:57:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C5E16A416 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8286843CA8 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:56:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6DD133529; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:27:47 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AE4899BF02; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:27:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:27:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Derek Ragona Message-ID: <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Running -CURRENT in production (was: Am I an Idiot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:57:50 -0000 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [resequenced] On Friday, 8 December 2006 at 17:15:49 -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 04:45 PM 12/8/2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're running around 25 FBSD servers, mostly 6 and a few 5-STABLE. For a >> few months, we also run our internal storage/smb/whatnot machine on >> -current. Never had ANY issues. Just works, and better than 6-*. >> >> Now, we are about to replace our MX's and I'm thinking of deploying >> -current on them instead of upcoming 6.2. Right now running tests on the >> hardware, two ProLiant DL360G3 cpu's and everything looks just fine. >> >> Am I an idiot or is anyone else out there running -current on production >> systems? I figured if one MX goes haywire at least we've got another >> one... Very interested in your opinion. > > Best practices are to run only stable on production servers. I used to run CURRENT on my machines all the time. The main reason I stopped was not reliability, but the fact that CURRENT changes so frequently. Time to upgrade the system is also down time. At the other end of the scale, I have one machine which runs my beer brewing and is now 6 years old: FreeBSD brewer.lemis.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Dec 12 18:45:30 CST 2000 grog@monorchid.lemis.com:/src/FreeBSD/5.0-CURRENT/src/sys/compile/MONORCHID i386 I've never had software problems with it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFefv7IubykFB6QiMRAqioAJwLfRz8IXdA8y7JYF+ScwmZ6L45LACgoFMX fA0L3xjgFpFOdsO2LEaz9ps= =b7A8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--