New Server - To 5.x or Not To 5.x

[Marc G. Fournier]

I've been running FreeBSD 4.x for eons now, mainly because of the fact 
that she's "known" in our environment ... UNIONFS isn't perfect, but all 
of the obvious/major bugs have been worked out of her, etc ... but, she's 
also a dead branch, so any outstanding bugs, nobody is interested in 
fixing them, let alone having reported ...

I'm just in the process of putting together a new server, and based on 
some stuff I've heard recently concerning work that has been done on 
UNIONFS, I'm tempted to put 5.x onto this new server, to start bringing my 
servers into the 'current age' ...

Is there anyone out there using 5-STABLE and UNIONFS that are happy with 
it, or is it still very problematic?

Again, the key thing right now for me is UNIONFS, so I'm looking mainly 
for feedback from ppl that *are* using it, not just reading the end of the 
man page ...

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664