Traditionally, operating systems are released at 3 to 5 year intervals
because delivering something of that complexity is an unbelievably huge
undertaking.
Making the latest OpenSolaris development updates available to everyone
every two weeks is an incredibly ambitious and difficult task, and, as
an end user, there are both risks and rewards to being on this train.
Individual bugs are taken on by individuals or project teams but each
one represents a tiny cog in a huge machine. Given the number of people
involved, the amount of concurrent, ongoing work and the sheer size of
the dependency matrix, it is unrealistic to consider OpenSolaris builds
from an individual bug perspective. Even though some bugs may be of
critical importance and there may be significant focus on resolving
those bugs, the rest of the machine continues and each OpenSolaris build
is a compendium of everything that has been contributed and tested for
that build.
> I tried upgrading to b118, which was supposed to have the fix.
> However, b118 did not even boot, and being new to Opensolaris,
> I was forced to format and reinstall 2009.06.
>
> Now I'm disinclined to upgrade to b124 (which supposedly has the CIFS
> fix) and will instead reboot my system on a daily basis when smb server
> hangs ... I cannot wait until February 2010 ...
One of the advantages of Solaris is that you can keep your applications,
application configuration and data separate from the base OS and, with
the use of name services and the automounter, reinstalling can be
relatively non-intrusive. Aside from the time to install the ISO image
onto the local disk, I can generally be up and running in about 10 to 15
minutes after a complete OS reinstall.
If you are on the development build train, it would probably be worth
getting set up to minimize the disruption if something doesn't work out
as planned.
I don't know your specific needs but my base install is snv_118, which
has been patched to something similar to snv_124, and I'm not experiencing
any problems.
Alan
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