From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 16:55:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0941614CCA for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 16:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA08287; Tue, 4 May 1999 09:25:04 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA28623; Tue, 4 May 1999 09:25:02 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 09:25:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: Studded , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current state of the conventional wisdom? Message-ID: <19990504092501.G10134@freebie.lemis.com> References: <372E03A5.C88FCB9A@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 01:22:52PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 3 May 1999 at 13:22:52 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 1999, Studded wrote: > >> 1. As far as I can see, 3.1-Stable is the way to go. I need info on the >> best way to upgrade a 2.2.8 system to 3.1-Stable, going fully(?) elf in >> the process. > > I suggest holding off until 3.5. 3.X is a total mess at the moment, and > if your 2.2.8 box is running fine then don't touch it. Huh? What gives you that idea? I've been running 3.X for some time now, and I haven't had any trouble. If you make such negative statements, you should at least justify them. On the other hand, I wouldn't recommend installing 3.1 right now. 3.2 will be released in the middle of the month, and it's probably worth waiting for. >> 4. I definitely need fast, reliable NFS if I'm going to sell the people >> at work on using freebsd, so how is that working in 3.1, or am I better >> off going to 4.x? I will be interfacing primarily with sun's. I have >> seen a flurry of nfs-related mail in the last few days, trying to catch >> up on that now. > > 3.X does not have reliable NFS yet, AFAIK. We've had trouble with NFS for years. 3.X is no worse than 2.X, and it's probably better. The good news is that we've recently seen a lot of fixes for NFS go into -CURRENT, and they'll probably appear in 3.X (probably 3.3) as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message