RH now exiting 1 more data center

[Michael Gargiullo]

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?