Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 24/11/2012 16:38, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 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.

9-STABLE works for me.  I've run into a few quite minor bugs, but
certainly nothing really significant.  Stability is rock-solid as ever.

> 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.

Upgrading by compiling world+kernel from source is an effective method.
 Works just as well for 8->9 as for any of the previous upgrades you
mention.

It is not however sufficient to get you a completely upgraded system:
you will still have to re-install all of your ports.  Otherwise, as you
end up trying to upgrade ports by ones and twos over time, you'll end up
with a complete rat's nest of contradictory shared library dependencies
and programs crashing left, right and centre.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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