Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

[Andriy Bakay]

Do you know any more convenient way (except make buildword, etc.) to upgrade/update several boxes to STABLE on regular basis? Something like freebsd-update or maybe some process, tips, tricks, etc?

Thanks.

On 2010-10-08, at 6:11, Pete French <petefrench at ticketswitch.com> wrote:

>> Ok. But how stable (production ready) the FreeBSD-8-STABLE is? What is your opinion?
> 
> I am running 8-STABLE from 27th September on all our ptoduction
> machines (from webservers to database servers to the company mail
> server) and it is fine. I am going to update again over the next
> few days, as there are some ZFS fixes in which I want - and which
> may benifit you too - so I will be able to report back next
> week as to how a more recent version behaves.
> 
> In general though, I have never had problems running STABLE on
> prodyction systems over the years. Of course what I do is to test it
> on a singlre machine before rolling it out (a leaf in a webfarm
> so if it goes down it wont affect the business) but it is usually
> fine. keep an eye on -STABLE mailing list though, as that is where
> problems arise. I watch that, and also the dailing commits, either here
> 
> http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=freebsd&committer=&module=&q=
> 
> or here
> 
> http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8
> 
> Just to see whats going into the tree relative to whats being discussed.
> It only takes a few minutes a dat to monitor the mailin lists and the
> commits, and the result is that we've been running STABLE for a very
> long time (close to a decade I suspect) with great success.
> 
> -pete.