From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 21:57:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08834 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08811 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:56:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id VAA41822; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:56:57 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id VAA16678; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:46:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: greeves cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: RE: Is there any "race condition" in FFS? In-Reply-To: <01BD98A6.CE8815E0@greeves.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, greeves wrote: >OK, now you've got me nervous! Here I am about to begin turning mail >services here over to FBSD and Popper et al. (from NT with IMS - a really >great mail server whose mail flaw is running on NT ;-) and you send me >word of th "David Rivers Daily Memorial Panic"??? > >Is this phenomenon associated with any particular set of conditions >which I can avoid? This is *very* serious from my perspective: let's >face it Email is the *one* thing that will fire up an otherwise brain-dead >user to action! I certainly don't need 5000 daily complaints from angry >users and frustrated bosses :) Let me restate that for you. "Email is the *one* thing that will fire up an otherwise brain-dead user to action!" This is one reported email message from one user about one problem of a machine of unknown configuration and administration about a problem which has shown up, but hasn't been tracked down yet. Don't get too "fired-up". >Should I be sticking with our NT mail servers for now? If you really want to puke your guts out with nervousness then you can read the entire GNATS database. All bugs great and small are in there. Perhaps you would like to compare the FreeBSD freely distributed GNATS database with the one that M$ allows everyone to read? I wonder how many unimplemented calls still exist in the TCP/IP stack that M$ won't bother to fix until Bugtraq tells all the script baby crackers where to strike for a denial of service. I guess some people might be more comfortable taking a weapon of unknown shortcomings into battle than one that they know has a glitch. I love the fact the FreeBSD is open regarding the problems it has. My point is this. Don't let one exuberantly stated bug sway you from choosing a very good product. If there is a certifiable bug, the FreeBSD project will tell you what it is and how to fix it. M$ will let it slide for while and then make you pay for the fix in the next upgrade. The busiest FTP site on the net runs FreeBSD. An overloaded FreeBSD server in a saltwater bath is more stable than NT running in a vacuum with no users. Don't be nervous. Be confident that FreeBSD is the _best_ platform for providing internet services. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message