Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:27:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Running -CURRENT in production (was: Am I an Idiot?) Message-ID: <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [resequenced] On Friday, 8 December 2006 at 17:15:49 -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 04:45 PM 12/8/2006, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're running around 25 FBSD servers, mostly 6 and a few 5-STABLE. For a >> few months, we also run our internal storage/smb/whatnot machine on >> -current. Never had ANY issues. Just works, and better than 6-*. >> >> Now, we are about to replace our MX's and I'm thinking of deploying >> -current on them instead of upcoming 6.2. Right now running tests on the >> hardware, two ProLiant DL360G3 cpu's and everything looks just fine. >> >> Am I an idiot or is anyone else out there running -current on production >> systems? I figured if one MX goes haywire at least we've got another >> one... Very interested in your opinion. > > Best practices are to run only stable on production servers. I used to run CURRENT on my machines all the time. The main reason I stopped was not reliability, but the fact that CURRENT changes so frequently. Time to upgrade the system is also down time. At the other end of the scale, I have one machine which runs my beer brewing and is now 6 years old: FreeBSD brewer.lemis.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Dec 12 18:45:30 CST 2000 grog@monorchid.lemis.com:/src/FreeBSD/5.0-CURRENT/src/sys/compile/MONORCHID i386 I've never had software problems with it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFefv7IubykFB6QiMRAqioAJwLfRz8IXdA8y7JYF+ScwmZ6L45LACgoFMX fA0L3xjgFpFOdsO2LEaz9ps= =b7A8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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