On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim 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 ? > > Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the following > 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4: > > kern/80617: > Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS (Patches available) > Not exremely important: just don't do that. > > kern/79208: > i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf() (Fixed in RELENG_5) > PITA when running threaded calculations. > > kern/78824 > socketpair()/close() race condition (Fixed in CURRENT) > Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon. > > Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd say > stick with RELENG_5 for the time being.
Since I can't seem to keep any recent RELENG_5 kernel up and running atm. I'd change my viewpoint to run 5.4 and apply all necessary stability patches yourself. I'll prepare a patchset... Marc
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