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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:06:38 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>
Cc:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Let 3.x die ASAP?
Message-ID:  <20000329120638.A10455@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000329095628.9124A-100000@omnix.net>; from didier@omnix.net on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:57:25AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003290146040.18478-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000329095628.9124A-100000@omnix.net>

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In <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000329095628.9124A-100000@omnix.net>, Didier Derny wrote: 
> 
> now with 3.x I have uptimes between 2/6 weeks!
> with 2.x I had uptimbes between 2/6 months!

I don't think that uptime wars are the right thing to decide over the
issue. 

What counts are the number of case where an upgrade to 4.x had an
instant positive effect. I have several such occasions. In one case,
the IDE hardware that crashed 3.4-stable reproducable worked under 3.1
when directly switching harddisks.

Speaking of reproduceable, why didn't I debug the issues? In all these
cases, the machines were for one reason or another not suitable for
debugging (production machines, fixed frequency monitors, hard hang
with no crashdump etc.). 3.x and especially the old wd driver wasn't
important enough for me to go through the effort on a saturday->sunday
night. It seems that other committers think on the same line and hence
I want 3.x to die soon. (Where "die" means that no new users jump on
it). 

Martin
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