From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 18:04:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5585B16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:04:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8730343D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68EC1F3C2; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:04:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 6743365B1; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:04:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:04:28 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: Mike Tancsa Message-ID: <20050608180428.GA42445@stack.nl> References: <20050608001306.3FB1F43D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <42A6C7CE.9000002@incubus.de> <200506080908.02478.fcash@ocis.net> <42A71AE1.8020300@incubus.de> <6.2.1.2.0.20050608134054.06b8ccb0@64.7.153.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050608134054.06b8ccb0@64.7.153.2> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Matthias Buelow Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:04:32 -0000 --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:42:45PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was > >completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different universes. >=20 > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I think w= as=20 > called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of the OS do you feel a= re=20 > not production ready as compared to 4.X ? Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the following 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4: kern/80617: Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS (Patches available) Not exremely important: just don't do that. kern/79208: i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf() (Fixed in RELENG_5) PITA when running threaded calculations. kern/78824 socketpair()/close() race condition (Fixed in CURRENT) Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon. Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd say stick with RELENG_5 for the time being. Zlo --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCpzMsezjnobFOgrERAjJYAKCBXTKv+SYrHK0neyoKptrK+VUKLgCdFcqz QOuTRs9o8m4krbuxvORRyQE= =VVN/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ--