--On Thursday, June 05, 2008 14:22:00 -0400 John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I find that bce(4) is far more reliable in 6.3 than 6.1 for us. There have
been several fixes (esp. for higher loads, and mostly in 6.2) to this driver.
There are known panics in earlier 6.x that are fixed in 6.3 for certain with
this driver.
Thanks. Knowing that gives me a lot more confidence to go ahead and build a
new kernel for that server.
In general though, you don't know which bugs are fixed and if any regressions
are present w/o testing the code. If you have production systems then
hopefully you have QA systems for development, etc. and you can either reuse
those when app QA isn't active for OS QA or you can get dedicated boxes for
OS QA. Even if you used a commercial OS with a support contract you would
need to do the same.
Again, that would be nice, but **just like FreeBSD** this is an all volunteer
project where both time and money are at a premium. If I had a dollar for
every time my wife complained about me using my valuable free time to support
this site without any compensation, I could probably afford a test bed. :-)
--
Paul Schmehl
As if it wasn't already obvious,
my opinions are my own and not
those of my employer.
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