That's why I said that it wasn't less stable than 443. Veritas has a
better rep than most, but I've been bitten once by them.
KevinM

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 KevinB AT paccessglobal DOT com wrote:

> You are far more trusting than I am.  Although I have more respect for
> Veritas than most vendors they have made some mistakes, like everyone else.
> With the increased complexity of the software, systems, and the almost
> countless combinations of masters, slaves, clients, robots, etc. to assume
> testing will uncover all the bugs is a dangerous assumption.  My primary
> reason for joining lists like this feedback from people with real world
> implementations (this includes upgrade gotchas).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Madrick [mailto:madrick AT colltech DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 9:04 AM
> To: Jim VandeVegt
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 466 Jumbo, not 446.
> 
> 
> The way that Veritas tests the patches is that they run up a patch to fix
> something, then start testing it on a certain number of platforms. Once
> they get to a version that doesn't break anything, they release it. I'd
> say that 466 is no less stable than 443.
> Kevin
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Jim VandeVegt wrote:
> 
> > Darned fat fingers.  The latest 3.2GA patch on the FTP site is 466,
> > not 446.  I see 443 is still on the FTP site too. It is considered
> > the recommended stable patch to install, with 466 being bleeding edge?
> > 
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