Barry Boes wrote: > I could apply such a patch to my servers, but there are two disadvantages : > o who wants to apply kernel patches to mission critical servers? Isn't > that a linux thing (joke!)
Unfortunately it's not. There's a whole raft of patches (with PR's filed) that are required when you're using certain configurations of FreeBSD. In particular my 6.3 production servers require: * A bunch of patches to ataraid to prevent panics, make the raid work during failures etc... Many can be found here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting * Patch to the 4BSD scheduler to prevent regular deadlocks on all quad core systems I have access to: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg64390.html * Patch for fixing devfs to have proper behavior with symlinks in jails: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114057 And there are one or two other patches on some deployed systems (eg: 'multi ip jail patches'). I used to be in the no-patches-on-my-production-servers camp, but I've found that it was unrealistic and resulted in less stable systems. Cheers, Stef Walter _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
