On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 05:19:02PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am considering an upgrade from 2.3.2 to 2.4.6, but have seen some
> problem reports on this list in the last months. These seem to be
> associated with 2.4.6 in daemon mode on Linux and Solaris. Is this
> really the only known problem? Aside from the obvious "if it ain't
> broke don't fix it", are there compelling reasons to stay with 2.3.2,
> or to upgrade to 2.4.6? (We do have Linux and Solaris hosts here,
> though I have not confirmed whether anyone is using rsync in daemon
> mode.)
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Kind regards,
> David
I was one of the holdouts in moving from 2.3.2 because of definite problems
in the early 2.4.X series versions, but I've now got 2.4.6 deployed on
thousands of machines and 8 unix types. I have noticed what appears to be
a TCP driver bug in Linux when copying large amounts of data from Linux to
Solaris under certain conditions which I still haven't been able to nail
down, but moving back to 2.3.2 doesn't help. I have seen no hard evidence
on this mailing list that 2.4.6 causes more problems than 2.3.2.
- Dave Dykstra
