Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:45:16 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing quiescent fbsd machine via network for maintenance Message-ID: <19981202234516.U4374@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812022047130.8008-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:49:31PM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981203034619.562A-100000@ns.double-barrel.be> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812022047130.8008-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:49:31PM -0800, Tom woke me up to tell me: > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote: > > > What I do here is mount the servers / /usr /var and so on directories to > > /mnt on the build machine and then do a make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt and > > all gets installed in multiuser mode then I build a kernel for the servers > > and do a make install for the kernel with the DESTDIR option set. then I > > unmount the servers filesystems from the buildmachine and do a login to > > the servers to issue the reboot command. I find this reduces the machines > > downtime to about 2-3 minutes. Most users don't notice this or can put up > > with it. > > Why not just mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build machine on the > clients? Less machines need to be setup as NFS servers. Beat me to it ;p Sticking everything under /mnt on the build machine does seem kinda bass-ackwards... and it keeps the installed files from being chflag'd too. Plus, it minimizes writes on NFS mounted partitions (ISTR that you can tweak it to have a ro /usr/src and /usr/obj, but I don't remember how). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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