On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:41:55AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
> 
> > Use of a development kernel on a production system for a client...?
> > (Presumably paying if they're unhappy)
> > Oy vey!
> 
> Please look back through this list and see my previous response
> directly addressing this issue.
> 
> Summary:
> 
> 1. The release does not boot, and has known bugs in a disk driver
> that would make it extremely risky to run on this system anyway.

Well, 1.5.2 had months of uptime on my DS20 with 20 disks on 4 siop.
If it doesn't break in the first few minutes of heavy disk usage (when
resources needs to be allocated) it won't break later.

> 
> 2. If you think it's "stupid" to run NetBSD-current snapshots in
> production, well, a lot of NetBSD developers, including members of
> the core team, are doing something "stupid."
> 
> This blind faith that the previous release is always going to be
> more reliable than a current snapshot is starting to irritate me.

"previous release" maybe not, but release branch, I hope so :)

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