Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:55:35 -0400 From: Andriy Bakay <andriy@irbisnet.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.). Message-ID: <169A4F62-0509-4AE9-A4A5-F9CADD08140D@irbisnet.com> In-Reply-To: <E1P49vP-000NDI-Ah@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1P49vP-000NDI-Ah@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Do you know any more convenient way (except make buildword, etc.) to upgrade/update several boxes to STABLE on regular basis? Something like freebsd-update or maybe some process, tips, tricks, etc? Thanks. On 2010-10-08, at 6:11, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> Ok. But how stable (production ready) the FreeBSD-8-STABLE is? What is your opinion? > > I am running 8-STABLE from 27th September on all our ptoduction > machines (from webservers to database servers to the company mail > server) and it is fine. I am going to update again over the next > few days, as there are some ZFS fixes in which I want - and which > may benifit you too - so I will be able to report back next > week as to how a more recent version behaves. > > In general though, I have never had problems running STABLE on > prodyction systems over the years. Of course what I do is to test it > on a singlre machine before rolling it out (a leaf in a webfarm > so if it goes down it wont affect the business) but it is usually > fine. keep an eye on -STABLE mailing list though, as that is where > problems arise. I watch that, and also the dailing commits, either here > > http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=freebsd&committer=&module=&q= > > or here > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8 > > Just to see whats going into the tree relative to whats being discussed. > It only takes a few minutes a dat to monitor the mailin lists and the > commits, and the result is that we've been running STABLE for a very > long time (close to a decade I suspect) with great success. > > -pete.
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