Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:02:40 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: Running -CURRENT in production Message-ID: <457A0B30.9030802@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4579EB08.8080704@intersonic.se> <6.0.0.22.2.20061208171522.0246ee00@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20061208235747.GA34082@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [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 Yes! You need to ensure that not only the beer ages correctly, but the OS must be aged too! -- Best regards, Chris Cost of repair can be determined by multiplying the cost of your new coat by 1.75, or by multiplying the cost of a new washer by .75.
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