Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 05:26:04 +0100 (CET) From: home@jukkis.net To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <XFMail.20021117052604.home@jukkis.net> In-Reply-To: <20021116221745.X23359-100000@hub.org>
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On 17-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > But, back to my question "What happens when RELENG_4_7 crashes?" ... in > the past, before I did anything else, I'd upgrade to -STABLE, figuring it > might be something that someone else caught and was fixed ... but, looking > at the above changes in RELENG_4_7, it seems that reporting the crash is > more or less useless ... if its already fixed in -STABLE, is someone going > to MFC it down to RELENG_4_7? > > Up until this weekend, I had two heavily used/loaded servers pounding on > -STABLE ... if one crashed, I had netdump in place to dump core to the > other server, so that I had a crashdump ... and I'd report the results I > could figure out, in hopes that *someone* would look at it and get it > fixed, or ask me for more information on the bug ... basically, I'd risk a > crash in the hopes of solidifying the OS for the next release, but I kind > of hope(d) that -STABLE would at least run for more then a day or two :( > Isn't that the point? You run -STABLE to ensure that it is and will become -STABLE. If it's not, you will let everyone know that. How long have you been running stable, and how many times have you had to tell that it's crashing? FWIW, I have not had serious problems for 3 years. That's pretty good for me, but that's not how it's supposed to be. The way it should be, is that I should have problems at least every year, to give some feedback that "this particular thing is not working" - of course, the more seldom, the better.. As for the alpha/beta, current/stable thing, I've always said, -current is *the* *most* *absolute* *dont-expect-it-to-work* *latest* version, -stable is "-stabler" really. RELEASE is "the version that the people who know better, have chosen to be the representative of the current FreeBSD status".. my 2 cents. ----------------------- [17-Nov-2002 05:11:53] Jukkis - home@jukkis.net - www.jukkis.net Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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