From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 2 22:00:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03078 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:00:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03073 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 22:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26225; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:45:16 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981202234516.U4374@futuresouth.com> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:45:16 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Tom , "Michael C. Vergallen" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing quiescent fbsd machine via network for maintenance References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Tom on Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:49:31PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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