From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 14:40:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED20A16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:40:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from debian.akroteq.com (rdbck-static-72.palmer.mtaonline.net [12.17.141.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8B043D53 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@firman.us) Received: from andy by debian.akroteq.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CyWXY-0001lK-Lc for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:40:32 -0900 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 05:40:32 -0900 From: Andy Firman To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050208144032.GA6592@akroteq.com> References: <4205F382.8020404@freebsd.org> <20050206120822.3d8e381a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <200502061327.03530.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502061327.03530.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andy Firman List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:40:40 -0000 On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:26:56PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > > > Both operating systems do certain tasks better than each other, and both > > still have bugs. > > Well from dumb user perspective I dont really give a toss what Chritos has > to say about FreeBSD or NetBSD and I really hope the developers don't > waste any time or effort on a flame war over it. > > I have had such a miserable time with 5.3 that I have stopped testing with it. > > Geom (in its gstripe invocation) and vinum have both died on me repeatedly. > The disk performance compared to 4.11 on the same hardware is atrocious. > > I have championed FreeBSD and got it adopted for various purposes > at a number of major clients but I wouldn't dare recommend 5.3. Your comments are disturbing. I run a few 4.10 servers and am getting ready for a couple new ones and would like to go with 5.3 stable. Then I ran across this article: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1518217 which doesn't really go into detail, so I don't really trust the article. For a small web/email/database server on i386, using GEOM Mirror, ( http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ ) everything should be fine right??? I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD as much as possible, but am very confused about whether or not to use 5.3 !