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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:09:01 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
Cc:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?
Message-ID:  <20050610120901.GA34994@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050608224407.430b92ee@vixen42.local.lan>
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> <20050608180428.GA42445@stack.nl> <20050608224407.430b92ee@vixen42.local.lan>

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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:44:07PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the
> > following 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4:
> >=20
> > kern/80617:
> > Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS    (Patches available)
> > Not exremely important: just don't do that.
> >=20
> > kern/79208:
> > i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf()       (Fixed in RELENG_5)
> > PITA when running threaded calculations.
> >=20
> > kern/78824
> > socketpair()/close() race condition              (Fixed in CURRENT)
> > Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon.
> >=20
> > Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd
> > say stick with RELENG_5 for the time being.
>=20
> Given the choice, I can't see any reason not to run a system that is
> not using the current stable.

Which is exactly what I recommended (current stable =3D=3D RELENG_5) :-)

Marc

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