From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 5 12:46:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA22956 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22951 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA04947; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:45:52 -0800 (PST) To: michael butler cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:38:00 +1100." <199603051338.AAA14678@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 12:45:52 -0800 Message-ID: <4945.826058752@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > gotten this machine back to the point of being usable .. a fine effort for a > "stable" system, if I might express some of my frustration ! Your frustration is understandable, though please do try to temper it somewhat with the knowledge that many others are having far better luck - you seem to have hit upon a hardware combination which is somewhat pathological, unfortuantely. I wish it wasn't so easy to do that on the PC platform, but it kind of is unless you're willing to select from a very rigidly defined set of components. I would personally go out and bury that VESA board at midnight on a full moon, driving a wooden stake through its center so that it doesn't come back from the dead, but I can appreciate that you might not have this option. Have you talked to Justin Gibbs? > My question is this .. since -stable is presently unusable unless I want to > strangle my disk I/O (with news arriving at ~3 articles/second) and -release > too buggy for "heavy-duty" use, is -current likely to be any better ? I fail to see how it could be much worse, in your case.. :-) Jordan