Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:48:02 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? Message-ID: <20050608224802.78f4e6a4@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <42A73293.5000105@incubus.de> References: <20050608001306.3FB1F43D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <42A6C7CE.9000002@incubus.de> <200506080908.02478.fcash@ocis.net> <42A71AE1.8020300@incubus.de> <6.2.1.2.0.20050608134054.06b8ccb0@64.7.153.2> <42A73293.5000105@incubus.de>
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:01:55 +0200 Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >> I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, > >> it was completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different > >> universes. > > > > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I > > think was called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of > > the OS do you feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ? > > I won't go into the details here; it has crashed and frozen on me on > several occasions, it behaves badly when you do things it does not > expect, like pulling a mounted USB stick, it doesn't have working > software RAID (Ok, vinum never worked properly but that's a > different story), and it's performance is sub-par. I consider it > "production ready" when the new architecture has fully been > implemented, GIANT is gone, all those race conditions and deadlocks > that seemingly still persist have been fixed, and is has weathered > a release or two after that without apparent problems. I just had to try the USB part... other than having to unmount it and remount it, I had no problems.
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