From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 22:12:13 2008 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 B8A1A16A41B for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE5A13C457 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0IMC8F7080563; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:12:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m0IMC83k008839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:12:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200801182212.m0IMC83k008839@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:12:11 -0500 To: Jakub Siroky , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20080118230654.63e62314@dev> References: <014401c85a16$a5557280$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <200801182148.m0ILmOak008730@lava.sentex.ca> <20080118230654.63e62314@dev> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: To 6.3 or to 7.0 that is the question? 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, 18 Jan 2008 22:12:13 -0000 At 05:06 PM 1/18/2008, Jakub Siroky wrote: >Hello, please could you try to make large (hundred of GB) ext2 volume with I dont use ext2 anywhere. Only UFS2. ---Mike >e2fsprogs and copy large amount of data to it? On amd64 SMP (two >cores) RELENG_7_0 it should lead to unrecoverable panic or scrolling >strings "ext2_new_block: bit already set for block %d". On >6.2-STABLE there is no problem with linux partitions. > >Jakub Siroky > >On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:48:28 -0500 >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > At 04:11 PM 1/18/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: > > >I know 7 has had a lot of work done on locking and ULE but are there > > >any other reasons to go for that instead of 6.3? Conversely are there > > >any reason which would point away from 7 such as stability issues? > > > > I think it depends what apps you run, what drivers you rely on. The > > less esoteric your hardware is, the better the chances are that > > things will work well (eg. em nics vs nfe or tl etc etc). > > > > Our production experiences with 7 have been good so far. I just did a > > rather busy customer mail server this morning and so far so good. I > > migrated it from 6.3 to 7 and am just finishing the portupgrade > > process. We have also been running a 7.x box in our spam/virus > > scanning cluster since late Nov 2007 and no issues there either. We > > havent done any benchmarks to see if its faster than the 6.x boxes, > > but its certainly stable so far and seems to at least keep up to the > > other boxes. > > > > I am also testing a core2 and quad core box with 8 gig of RAM on a 4 > > port Areca controller that will replace a 6.2 postgresql server next > > week some time. Just doing some benchmarking/testing of that now and > > hope to have RELENG_7 64bit deployed next week on it if all goes > as planned. > > > > ---Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"