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Date:      Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:13:17 +0100
From:      Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Subject:   Re: Running -CURRENT in production
Message-ID:  <4579FF9D.9010902@intersonic.se>
In-Reply-To: <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> [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.

Hmm, yes, I think I forgot to mention we're stll on FOUR- in fact, this 
is our adminstration server. No problems here either.

FreeBSD cassidy.i.inter-sonic.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: 
Wed Nov  1 13:46:17 CET 2006 
peo@cassidy.i.inter-sonic.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CASSIDY  i386



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