[geeks] bah.

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 15:04 , Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> NetBSD does.  It's a little roundabout, but I've used it and it works.

I would second this.  NetBSD is great.

FreeBSD has not been the same since 4.x, and I recently dumped *ALL*  
of my FreeBSD 6 and 7 servers due to reliability issues.

FreeBSD's ATA code has some serious issues, and so does geom RAID stuff.

The ATA code seems especially bad when using flash based IDE devices.

The geom stuff... it has burned me a lot.  The geom raid software will  
happily destroy all your data with no warning either from the programs  
or the man pages, and they frequently locked up FreeBSD 6 and 7.  I  
have not tried FreeBSD 7.1 yet so things may have improved in that  
release.

Not saying don't use FreeBSD, but test extensively before you trust it  
on a given machine for critical duty.



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