It really depends on what you're going to be doing with it. The project that I feel really benefits from the latest versions right now is CIFS - there's so much going into that it's worth running the latest and greatest.
We've been running various versions of OpenSolaris and sxce for some time now, and apart from problems with the occasional build, it's been incredibly stable. Enough that our test server running sxce_94 wound up running quite a lot of live stuff. We've had no real problems now in well over 6 months, so I consider that a pretty good sign :) What I would say is that you should take a look at the flag days, it's a good way to see if there are any major changes that you would benefit from: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/ Personally I would consider any of these builds a long term test, in preparation for 2010.02, and I would plan to upgrade regularly to keep testing things until that arrives. We are aiming at that being the first build we will settle on, and by testing the latest builds, are doing everything we can to ensure that it's going to be stable in our environment when it arrives. If you're using ZFS, upgrading is very simple these days (It's barely 10 minutes work to do a clean install and re-import our pool), although I'm still a little paranoid so don't entirely trust live update. Instead I have two boot disks, and alternate between them for upgrades, physically removing the known working disk before trying a new build. I rarely update the ZFS pool, ensuring that it gets left in a form that I know will work on older builds. We've been doing that for around a year now, and have run builds 94, 96, 101, 104, 106, 112, 113, 114 and 117. Despite running so many versions, we've had almost zero problems. The only real issue we've had have been idmap stability problems since 106. Those have been worked around with a daily restart of that service, and I believe are being properly fixed now anyway. Other than that, every single release has been fine. >From the advice I've had from Sun, these days, rather than use sxce_114 or >sxce_117, I would go for OpenSolaris 2009.06, and upgrade to the latest from >the development repositories: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml These are at 117 right now, and updating is just a case of running: $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org $ pfexec pkg image-update That I believe gets you the closest possible environment to 2010.02, with a simple way of upgrading the system to the latest bits for testing. Ross -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
