Hi Stan, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I've been using Debian for headless servers for many years. > Distribution upgrades via apt-get or aptitude have been smooth and easy > for many years. I have one server that's been in-place upgraded from > Woody through Lenny with only minor dependency issues--that's 4 > distribution upgrades over 5 years--Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny. > Part of my reasoning for looking towards debian is because I was forced into it about two years ago. I manage a solution for one of my company partners which is based on etch with backported kernels. There are many things I like about it... and I agree on the clean upgrade path and very good package management. But the downsides to debian have been holding me back... 1) I miss yast. aptitude is just not the same. 2) Vendor support is officially non-existant. We are a Dell shop and upgrading openmanage is a pain. With SuSE its download and go. 3) I understand the ideology and legal reasons debian removes firmware blobs (broadcom anyone) from their kernel modules... but this is always a real pain. I end up monkeying about with the initrd image to get the firmware blobs in... and often I just recompile with the blobs and forget it. Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Then again, I don't use Debian kernels, so my kernels were never > upgraded during the dist upgrade. This may have prevented some > headaches. I roll my own kernels from kernel.org source and tend to > keep fairly current. So, when I do a dist upgrade my current kernel is > usually newer than what the dist upgrade provides. The fact I leave out > features I don't need may play a role in preventing problems as well. > ;-) That makes a huge difference. But generally my experience thus far with debian has been positive. Enough to make me consider switching. And I know the XFS has never given me a lick of trouble. *Didn't want to seem off topic. Had to throw in the XFS reference at the end. lol. Thanks again for everyone's input. Its Much Appreciated! -Cheers, Peter. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/XFS-Filesystem-not-mounting-tp29704010p29710491.html Sent from the Xfs - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
