FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

[Eric Anderson]

On 12/17/06 14:21, Jan Knepper wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running jails 
> with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5.
> 
> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious 
> gotcha's?
> 
> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron 
> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives)
> 
> Thanks!
> Jan

6-STABLE is very solid.  I've upgraded about 20 systems from 5.x to 6.x. 
  One thing I did on all of them was to go to the latest 5-STABLE code 
first, then hop to 6-STABLE.  I highly recommend 6-STABLE for the many 
many UFS/VFS bug fixes.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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