On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Mike Jakubik wrote: > >Rong-en Fan wrote: > >>On 5/23/06, Dmitriy Kirhlarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Hi, list. > >>> > >>>Some time ago quota and, AFAIR, snapshots in 6.1-RELEASE has deadlock > >>>problems. What the current situation with this? I'm ready to test > >>>patches, if needed. > >>> > >>>WBR > >> > >>IIRC, there are some quota and snapshots changes merged in > >>6.1-STABLE after 6.1-RELEASE is releases. So I think you may want > >>to try that. > > > >Thats correct. I have been meaning to test these, but not had the time > >to do so yet. If you can, update to -STABLE and give it a test. > > I had a motherboard die in a server on Sunday. It is running FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE and the only hardware they had to replace it with was an > Athlon64 CPU and a motherboard with an ATI chipset. With that board and > 5.4, it will only boot in Safe Mode, but then the hard drives are > running at very slow speeds. It completely locked up earlier today and > they had to do a hard reboot (with no errors on the screen or in > /var/log/messages). My plan was to have them fully upgrade the server > tonight to a new box (with the same Athlon64 and mobo with ATI chipset > since that's all they have), and do a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE > because a very similar board with the same chipset was reported to work > in 6.0. > > Every machine I have or work on runs FreeBSD, but this is the only one > that needs quotas because it runs cPanel for customers. I am not sure > all the details about the problems with quotas, so will running > 6.1-RELEASE with quotas cause problems for sure? If so, any suggestions > on what to do given my situation? Would 6.0 be any better? I'd like to > have the latest version because doing updates properly remotely is > difficult, but if it is not going to work then I may have to use 6.0 if > that will work or figure something else out hardware wise.
If you use snapshots with your quotas, update to 6.1-STABLE. If you don't use snapshots, 6.1-R should be fine. This was discussed in excruciating depth a few weeks back, so please read the archives for more. Kris
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