From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 09:09:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7623516A401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:09:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D33313C491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:09:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from admin.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HEioO-000Ghq-G0; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:09:56 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HEiqv-0008ph-Fa; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:12:33 +0300 To: "Artem Kuchin" References: <001d01c74a27$25afd9d0$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45C8E96C.4030902@antiszoc.hu> <004401c74a4b$8072fa90$0c00a8c0@Artem> <21342944@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <013c01c74a95$ca217000$0c00a8c0@Artem> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:12:33 +0300 In-Reply-To: <013c01c74a95$ca217000$0c00a8c0@Artem> (Artem Kuchin's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:17 +0300") Message-ID: <69509118@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE (raid 5 2TB) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:09:59 -0000 On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:17 +0300 Artem Kuchin wrote: > "There may be some issues with 64-bit cleanliness in some > (particularly older) drivers. Generally, drivers that already function > correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work. > FreeBSD/amd64 is a very young platform on FreeBSD. While the core > FreeBSD kernel and base system components are generally fairly robust, > there are likely to still be rough edges, particularly with third > party packages." > scares me. Do you really think it is better than PAE? Yes. It's very good and stable as a server platform. I use even 7-current-amd64 as a platform to create packages for 4.x -- 7.x for more than half a year now. There may be some issues as a workstation though (i.e. no drivers for nVidia cards etc.). WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve