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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:25:05 +0300
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        Tim Gustafson <tjg@ucsc.edu>
Cc:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS: unsupported ZFS version 5000 (should be 28)
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On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Tim Gustafson <tjg@ucsc.edu> wrote:
>>> http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.2
>>> http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4
>>> http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1
>
>> No, those are release engineering branches - which receive updates -
>> rather than release tags. The release tags are of this sort of
>> variety:
>
> Sorry, I think I was using incorrect labels.  The bottom line is: are
> the "releng" branches the ones that I should be tracking for
> production servers, or should I stick to "release"?  Is it correct
> that if I stick to "release", I won't get any post-release updates at
> all?
>
> --
>
> Tim Gustafson
> tjg@ucsc.edu
> 831-459-5354
> Baskin Engineering, Room 313A
> _______________________________________________


Tracking release/x.y branches is incorrect because they are frozen in
time snapshots that are never updated. Use the releng/x.y branches for
production systems to get errata and security fixes.

-Kimmo



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