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From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
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Subject: Re: Version of FreeBSD for production server?
To: chad@dcfinc.com
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 14:34:06 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199710091714.KAA10548@freebie.dcfinc.com> from "Chad R. Larson" at Oct 9, 97 10:14:03 am
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If you have ADAPTEC-2940, AFAIK, 2.2 has all the problems solved,
while 2.1.7-RELEASE (and to the best of my knowledhe, 2.1-STABLE) still
have them unsolved.

I think though, the original question was rather about 
different stages of 2.2*[.-]*

IgoR
> 
> > I'll need very soon to set up production server (NFS/Appletalk file server 
> > will be it's main purpose). What version would you recommend me for maximum 
> > stability?
> 
> For maximum stablility, I'd recommend 2.1.7-RELEASE, or 2.1-STABLE.
> We've got machines that have never crashed or hung up.  Uptime is
> controlled by operational needs for reboots.
> 
> This one, for example:
> 
> +---------------
> | chad> uname -a
> | FreeBSD freebie.dcfinc.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0:
> | Wed May 21 21:44:12 MST 1997
> | chad@freefall.anasazi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEBIE i386
> | 
> | chad> uptime
> | 10:11AM  up 133 days, 20:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.12, 0.07, 0.02
> +---------------
> 
> > Alex.
> 
> 	-crl
> --
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