5.2.1-REL or -CURRENT on a amd64 production system?

[Peter Losher]

So I have a dual-Opteron system I have been testing for the last couple 
of months w/ FreeBSD 5.2.x-REL/amd64 code.  As the box is about ready to 
be put into production as a storage/DB server, and as I have been 
catching up on mail from the amd64 list from the past week, I do have 
some concerns:

- RELENG_5_2 or .?  I have a particular aversion to running -CURRENT code 
on production systems.  But reading the fixes the the stack alignment 
code that Peter Wemm did here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-amd64&m=107981757401261&w=2

and the lack of responses to my pending issues with make buildworld, 
makes it seem that most everyone here is running -CURRENT.   How stable 
is it at the moment...? (one would assume O'Brien's latest snapshot 
ISO's are fine in this regard)  I just have a aversion to 4-6 months 
down the line having to recompile all my ports ;)

- VLAN support - BTW, in case anyone needed to know, adding vlan support 
to the kernel, then activating it on a network interface, causes 
ifconfig to panic (at least in 5.2.1-REL).  Dunno if anyone else has 
tried it yet or not in -CURRENT...

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide (I will probably file 
the VLAN issue as a bug report if it hasn't already been fixed in 
-CURRENT)

-Peter
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