Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:52:52 -0600 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: "matt ." <fasterdisco@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yesterday's -STABLE kernel corrupts LAN Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20051126145004.00c17008@sixcompanies.com> In-Reply-To: <a97e11c20511261245l2e147b76u349fa57bfcaf359d@mail.gmail.co m> References: <20051126182651.A966@www.pukruppa.net> <43889E27.2010209@makeworld.com> <20051126185500.I966@www.pukruppa.net> <4388A349.9080808@makeworld.com> <4388A5B0.6070005@mainframe.ca> <4388A6E4.1040206@makeworld.com> <4388C27A.8090601@vfs.com> <a97e11c20511261245l2e147b76u349fa57bfcaf359d@mail.gmail.com>
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At 02:45 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote: >Wow I must be missing something here on a very basic, fundamental level. > >I run FreeBSD-RELEASE on a production box. I have my reservations but it >was the only release that supported my RAID controller, so I had no choice >(or buy a $300 raid card that was supported). Anyway it works fine so far >(knock heavily and repeatedly on huge pieces of wood). > >I've read the FreeBSD notes regarding the differences between STABLE, >CURRENT and RELEASE. So uh, what is supposed to be run on a production >box? In plain sight on the FreeBSD site it says "Latest production release" >which is 6.0-RELEASE...are we only supposed to run RELEASE on production >systems or are we supposed to run STABLE? Seems to me it's >counter-intuitive to call something STABLE and not have it meant for >production. My head hurts. > >matt I couldnt agree more with this comment. My head hurt after trying to figure this out as well.. Yea. The information seems to contradict itself. The only thing I have been able to 100% figure out is: #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_0 -> release branch/security fixes only Results in: 6.0-RELEASE #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 -> 6.0 + changes will eventually be 6.1 Results in: 6.0-STABLE It is perhaps a bit easier in OpenBSD land. -STABLE means only bugfixes and important patches. In FreeBSD - this seems not the case? -JD
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