Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:28:35 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? Message-ID: <ff5go5$vio$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <13413b8f0710170920t5e5a03f9tcd703e6239db0296@mail.gmail.com> References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> <20071017165423.G89276@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <13413b8f0710170920t5e5a03f9tcd703e6239db0296@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Gueven Bay wrote: > So, but the original question was : What is not working _now_ at this > moment so that 7 cannot be released _now_ ? I can think of several issues of the top of my head: - rt_check bug in network routing causes panics under certain circumnstances (my favorite) - ZFS relatively often panics the system under high load - Something's also wrong with UFS under certain circumstances (this one hasn't bit me yet) Of these, first one has a patch (as of yesterday) that is very likely to solve the problem, the second has a temporary-looking patch to patch around the problem, and the third bug is still not tracked down yet. There may be more. I seem to recall there's something in the TCP/IP stack but it has never bit me so I don't know the details. The point is - you *don't* want an unstable operating system on a production machine. It's best we all wait until these get solved. Yes, theoretically there could be a release with these known bugs still unresolved, but I recall at least one previous release that did that (IIRC 6.0 with (g)vinum was unbootable under some circustances) and that has resulted in a bunch of negative press toward FreeBSD. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFkZDldnAQVacBcgRAh2IAKDUSNVL69cT1TkZ2iJBEEj5HLO/WQCaAjJj mNthqhhuY0W/oaA8oAwq7E4= =y4XM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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