FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:04:28 +0200
Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:42:45PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines,
> > >it was completely unusable.  Maybe we just live in different
> > >universes.
> > 
> > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I
> > think was called a preview.  The topic is 5.4R.  What parts of
> > the OS do you feel are not production ready as compared to 4.X ?
> 
> Personnally, when upgrading from 4.x to 5.x, we ran into the
> following 3 issues that are still not fixed in 5.4:
> 
> kern/80617:
> Hangup writing large blocks to NFS mounted FS    (Patches available)
> Not exremely important: just don't do that.
> 
> kern/79208:
> i387 libm's floorf(), ceilf() and truncf()       (Fixed in RELENG_5)
> PITA when running threaded calculations.
> 
> kern/78824
> socketpair()/close() race condition              (Fixed in CURRENT)
> Patch will be MFC'd to RELENG_5 soon.
> 
> Anyway: you won't catch me running an unpatched 5.4 system... I'd
> say stick with RELENG_5 for the time being.

Given the choice, I can't see any reason not to run a system that is
not using the current stable.