filePro freeBSD6.0 w/SMP

[Walter Vaughan]

Since FreeBSD 4.X series is now recommended for upgrade I finally took the 
plunge to see what grief 6.0 would cause. In some ways it's about the same as 
moving from OSR 5.0.0 to 5.0.4 ... best path is a total re-install since the 
native disk format changes from UFS to USF2. The big change in freeBSD happend 
between the 4.X series and 5.X series, and 6.X was basically a code freeze in 
the 5.X platform and a place to injest, lockdown, and stress test all the changes.

$ uname
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 16 07:34:42 EST 2005 
:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP  i386

So far everything looks quite good. I have been testing with Dual Intel Xeon 
Motherboard with Intel SATA RAD, pretty much beating it up non-stop last 24hours.

I restored filePro via a tar archive of /appl, and manually added in a 
/etc/default/fppath. Out of the box filePro ran perfect (which is what I 
expected). The default kernels seem to support 4.x binaries, though I had read 
many times that the misc/compat4x port was required (I probably missed the point 
that they were talking about system [/usr/bin type] binaries). Just for luck I 
added it in, and noticed about 2% speedup that probably was to due to the 
reboot.  I should have benchmarked before going from 4.11 to 6.0. Oh well.

So, as they say... the water's fine, jump on in.
--
Walter