From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 02:17:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9BB106566C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:17:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petro.rossini@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534398FC13 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcmm1 with SMTP id m1so1854871vcm.13 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of petro.rossini@gmail.com designates 10.220.107.212 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.220.107.212; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of petro.rossini@gmail.com designates 10.220.107.212 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=petro.rossini@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=petro.rossini@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.220.107.212]) by 10.220.107.212 with SMTP id c20mr198088vcp.26.1330049852887 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:17:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=4nW/wRlIfA68/Z7fkbTtOMT6yIFl1jQxhZh/Nv9bRMg=; b=QFm+w1nIV/VS875GYAbm/OUeNL9wU3f2G7lNW8m6TjZr86JOLFQUO91fy6XfTL/NRY JKxnoAglUuh9+XAORvr6DzINZ1bgtmU7dd5H8xKFWvqLkDfyVT+UxzioJj8gzQV5lRWx UlJ0EAiv8FSDVIqb5LIeNV1CJf5RMnI5pViSE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.107.212 with SMTP id c20mr159777vcp.26.1330049852742; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.203.67 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:17:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> References: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:17:32 +1100 Message-ID: From: Petro Rossini To: Damien Fleuriot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:17:33 -0000 Hi Damien, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > I'm writing this in light of the *many* problem reports I see on the > lists with 9.0-RELEASE. > > I'm getting extremely worried here. > .. > See, we use FreeBSD at work for our firewall boxes, running: > .. > These boxes serve as frontend firewalls for all our projects/products, > including a few high traffic ones. > Hi Damien, I guess you wouldn't roll out a new release on all FreeBSD servers in one go. For most environments there is room to staging it, from test and developer boxes upwards to production. At the moment I am running FreeBSD 9 on some developer boxes, Nagios monitoring and others. It works without problems even if I am using VIMAGE which is still an experimental feature. Sooner or later I will install it on other more relevant production machines. Don't worry, it isn't that bad;-) If I can have one wish from the engineering team: please keep the schedule up to date. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/schedule.html isn't showing the release yet, http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO was also quite behind. Maybe one web page is enough.. Thanks Peter