From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 03:05:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E72B11E for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:05:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pulley@dabus.com) Received: from aegir.dabus.com (aegir.dabus.com [173.14.229.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A9E8FC18 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aegir.dabus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aegir.dabus.com (Processor) with ESMTP id 7765B5F314 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:05:35 -0700 (MST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; b=AMuw4TS9uZROoy6AScmFTgBAtDZZoHzetgiYUFRhLAGxITWHUuYJOimB88LOHy+xCtEsO0ZDe9td95gS40vaczr3ohn3kIz85mrvI3KdG0WgODbq53t18JSJaXa4y8S8+ZJ2AO90FE0Z9tWJCfudGZtx6PWdtlAIaaoLngZ2kMA=; c=nofws; d=dabus.com; q=dns; s=aegir1 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (unknown [192.168.10.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aegir.dabus.com (Dabus) with ESMTPSA id 8F14B5F2C5 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:05:34 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:05:32 -0700 From: Eric S Pulley To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> References: <50B0F80B.6090400@tundraware.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:05:43 -0000 --On November 24, 2012 10:38:35 AM -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that > provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not > a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which > FBSD 4-8 have been). > > I am contemplating moving to the FBSD 9 family. Is this branch ready > for production or should I wait a while yet? I ordinarily avoid x.0 > releases of anything and I know 9.1 is soon going to be with us. > > In a related note, if I do move to 9.x is it sufficient to grab the > appropriate source tree and compile world and kernels, install and > reboot? That is, it is reasonable to do an in-place upgrade. This > is how I migrated 4->6, 6->7, and 7->8 and I am hoping this is till > the case since a complete reinstall is painful and slow. > I upgraded to 9 on a server that is basically doing what yours is. I used freebsd-update and it did all the right things no problems. Been running on 9 without any issues pretty much since it came out. However, the only thing remotely fancy I'm doing is running root ZFS and link aggregation on my NIC's.