From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 11 11:38: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB31A15312 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06804; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:36:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199912111936.MAA06804@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: is -STABLE really stable? In-Reply-To: from Steve O'Hara-Smith at "Dec 8, 99 04:20:22 pm" To: steve@pooh.elsevier.nl (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:36:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > Indeed the latter scenario is ideal (ideal is that the spare box and > the production box are identical). > [...] > Two identical boxes is IMHO the only way to be sure. Of course, that means you have to buy all the boxen, including the spare, in the same order. At least in the PC world, it is basically not possible to buy identical PCs seperated by more than a couple of weeks. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message