Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:18:36 -0400 From: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: [kris@freebsd.org: Re: Whats is this? FBSD 4.1 isn't stable!] Message-ID: <20000921041836.A15790@lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:01:57 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
To: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Whats is this? FBSD 4.1 isn't stable!
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In-Reply-To: <20000920185458.B29063@lcs.mit.edu>; from beng@lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:54:58PM -0400
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:54:58PM -0400, Benjamin Greenwald wrote:
> This e-mail also highlights a common misconception. The "stable"
> in FreeBSD-Stable refers to the stability of the feature set of the
> releases along the branch, not the robustness of those releases.
> Granted the two are correlated, but there is always the possibility that
> you will be the unlucky (or lucky depending on your point of view) one
> to run into a yet undiscovered bug in an existing feature.
Except in this case I doubt it was a bug in FreeBSD at all, more likely
to be hardware on the user's machine. "Spontaneous reboots", "Spurious
signal 11s" are very very good signs of this.
You say "your system has run for 2 1/2 years without a hardware fault",
I say "after 2 1/2 years your hardware is wearing out" ;-)
Kris
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