On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:01:55 +0200 Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >> I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, > >> it was completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different > >> universes. > > > > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I > > think was called a preview. The topic is 5.4R. What parts of > > the OS do you feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ? > > I won't go into the details here; it has crashed and frozen on me on > several occasions, it behaves badly when you do things it does not > expect, like pulling a mounted USB stick, it doesn't have working > software RAID (Ok, vinum never worked properly but that's a > different story), and it's performance is sub-par. I consider it > "production ready" when the new architecture has fully been > implemented, GIANT is gone, all those race conditions and deadlocks > that seemingly still persist have been fixed, and is has weathered > a release or two after that without apparent problems. I just had to try the USB part... other than having to unmount it and remount it, I had no problems. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
