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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:40:31 -0500
From:      "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updating world with least downtime
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020830132639.B10958@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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At 01:26 PM 8.30.2002 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:07:14PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>> Yes, that's what I do after taking an image of the drive and also using the
>> "build box" as the first test to see if everything works okay. Downtime is
>> only a matter of seconds... riskier, yes, but acceptable with the image to
>> fall back on. Dropping to the single-user mode causes a downtime of about
>> 30 minutes otherwise on a 1.4G CPU machine... longer on slower machines.
>> Everthing is now done via scripts.
>
>If it's taking that long, it's got some serious problems even with the
>rediculous post times many boards have today.  My laptop (with 3400RPM
>disk) takes <15.
>
>-- Brooks
>

I don't believe your laptop does installworld, mergemaster, etc all in 15
minutes.... we must must be talking different things....

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
http://www.sage-one.net
jackstone@sage-one.net

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