On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 17:02, Mark wrote: > On February 22, 2004 04:22 pm, Res wrote: > > we had 7.3 boxes running untill recent that NEVER missed a beat, never > > had to touch them,, like the RH9 boxes we have.... since fedora went on > > the 7.3 boxes, well, what a nightmare, daily interventions. > > I know of others who were running 7.3 samba servers, fedora destroyed it, > > they gave up and reinstalled 7.3 and backups from tape, they have told me > > they will not touch it again either. > > Critical systems need to be tested before major upgrades like that. Just > upgrading to any new version of an OS can be problematic. This is nothing new > with Fedora. You need to test things first. Especially if your system has to > been working. > > Who knows, you configuration could triger a bug that hasn't been seen before. > Anyone who rolls out major upgrades without testing first, deserves have > problems. > > There were lots of problems with older upgrades of RedHat. RedHat 7.0 anyone? > > As for upgrading, the fedora legacy project is still supporting RedHat 7.3. So > staying with RedHat 7.3 while you tested the new fedora setup only makes > sense. > > > I know RH engineers work on this > > project, but the QC crew sure as hell dont, if they did FC1 WOULD be as > > relaible and stable as previous RH's. > > Well I know for a fact that the same group guys we send RHEL bugs to respond > to Fedora Bugs. Read the Fedora-test and Fedora-Devel list archives. > Frequiently you will see names like Alan Cox or Mike Harris. > > regards, I find this thread very interesting. We run several multiproc boxes on FC1 without a hitch. I will say, I don't think any of them are overly stressed, I like to over build when I have the chance. Tyan MB with AMD chips, and Dell 2650's dual Intel Xeon w hyperthreading. We run the FC1 SMP kernels... Should I be looking for anything specific to go wrong?
