Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

[Matthew Emmerton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Moran" <billm at craftmfg.com>
To: <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5


> I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated
> backup/archive computer on a network I administer.
> 
> I'm curious to hear some opinions on how wise this is.  I know
> that 5 is still in a -CURRENT status and I've seen (and repeated)
> the warnings that it's not really production quality yet.
> 
> So I'm curious as to a number of facets of its capibilities:
> 1) With the current developmet effort ... does it seem like 5.1
>    will be -STABLE ... or do folks feel that a -STABLE brand
>    is further off (5.2?)
> 2) For a dedicated backup server, that can tolerate the
>    performance problems that folks have been reporting, and
>    won't upset the entire office if it panics on occasion, is 5
>    good enough at this point?
> 
> I know this is inviting a lot of opinion and conjecture ... but I need
> some idea of where I can go with this.  These folks need a solution
> soon, and I don't want to pass on something that's not ready yet.
> On the flip side, the nature of the beast means that it doesn't NEED
> to be a reliable as I normally expect a FreeBSD server to be, so
> there's a little more tolerance than usual.
> 
> Any input is greatly appreciated.

What's wrong with 4.8-RELEASE?

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Matt Emmerton