From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 5 11:02:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29335 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29330 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01580; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:02:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803051902.OAA01580@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus redundancy... In-Reply-To: <19980305120943.00850@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Mar 5, 98 12:09:43 pm" To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:02:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger said: > My concern for these is as follows: > > 1) The devices on the RAID arrays are high-availability required machines > (ie: primary NFS fileservers, News service, and the authentication > database machines). NONE OF THESE can afford to be down or crash. > > 2) -CURRENT at present has a reputation for having some trouble, > particularly at the kernel level. I'm running mid-November kernels > and operating system releases on these machines right now due to > this. That release *is* stable in these uses. > > Am I asking for major trouble if I up-rev to a recent (like last night) > -CURRENT? > Please don't yet. I am working at 100% trying to resolve some problems. I will try to get done more quickly, but I don't want to risk any more bugs. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message