How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

[Ruben de Groot]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra typed:
> 
> > However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs 
> > takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it 
> > fscks in the background.
> 
> Hi
> 
> FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> Set in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> fsck_y_enable="YES"
 
This doesn't mean "fsck in the background". It means do a normal fsck, 
answering "yes" to all questions fsck might ask.

Ruben

> roberto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > The machine is an ASUS A7V333 with AMD XP 1800+ and 512 MB RAM, 3ware 
> > 7500 RAID.
> > It provides the 'usual' services:
> > - NFS
> > - Samba
> > - IMAP
> > - SMTP
> > - LPD printing
> > - Mailman
> > - HTTP
> > - Postgres
> > - LDAP User, mail aliases, automount info
> > - IMP Webmail
> > 
> > So, no fancy hard- or software, i guess.
> > Would it be very hazardous to sitch to 5.2 already now?
> > 
> > Another thing: Is there any point in converting the filesystems to UFS2 
> > (in a later step)?
> > 
> > Thanks for any insight,
> > 
> > 	Heinrich
> > -- 
> > 
> > Heinrich Rebehn
> > 
> > University of Bremen
> > Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
> > - Department of Telecommunications -
> > 
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