Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Matthias Buelow
Bill Moran writes: >2) For a dedicated backup server, that can tolerate the > performance problems that folks have been reporting, and > won't upset the entire office if it panics on occasion, is 5 > good enough at this point? If the system isn't really too critical, I'd go for it. I'm run

Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Scott Long
Matthew Emmerton wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBS

Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5 > I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated

Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated > > > > backup/archive computer on a network I ad

Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
- Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5 > From: &qu

Re: Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated > > backup/archive computer on a network I administer. > > > > I'm curious to hear some opinions on how wise this is. I know > > that 5 is still

Overall "feel" for the stability of FreeBSD 5

2003-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
I'm considering setting up a FreeBSD 5 machine as a dedicated backup/archive computer on a network I administer. I'm curious to hear some opinions on how wise this is. I know that 5 is still in a -CURRENT status and I've seen (and repeated) the warnings that it's not really production quality yet