At 05:16 PM 7/7/97 -0400, Christoph Doerbeck wrote:

I'm looking for input regarding why I might (or might not) encourage my users to allow me to upgrade the filer OS from 3.1c to 4.0.1c. What features are we missing? What pitfalls can I expect? I just want to cover my bases...

What we have currently is very stable.

As far as I am concerned, there is one major advantage to the 4.x series. It can serve files over CIFS. It can also serve files over http, but that's much less important to me.

We have a large and growing number of PCs, and installing NFS software on them is a pain in the rear. Being able to serve files over CIFS is very convenient.

If you don't need CIFS or HTTP file service, then it's a much closer call.

'course, 4.x is their current release, and any performance tweaks they make are gonna go into 4.x, which will probably make it a bit faster, and potentially a bit less stable. If you're performance hungry, go with 4.x. If you absolutely have to stay up, ask them for their current list of known bugs in 3.1c and 4.0.1c, read them carefully, and decide which set you're less likely to trigger.

They're pretty good with their known bugs list.

Amy