Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:09:40 -0800 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006) Message-ID: <20060105090940.GE1358@svcolo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051223030813.GD63497@over-yonder.net> References: <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <20051217220021.GB93998@svcolo.com> <20051218023725.GM63497@over-yonder.net> <20051222210904.GH39174@svcolo.com> <20051223030813.GD63497@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:08:13PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Having done full OS upgrades a number of times, I can't remember the > last time it took more than 5 or 10 minutes (during most of which the When the servers are in 17 countries around the world, with no CD-ROM access. You keep missing the point about "not your home computer". > > Back to the point, the comments aren't "bad". Your idea that binary > > operating system upgrades from ISO are "easier" demonstrates that > > you're talking about home computers, not production servers. > > Oh, no. Heck, I find that upgrades from SOURCE are "easier". In > fact, just last month I bought my first CD burner, so it wasn't until > a few weeks ago that I even burned my first ISO (and that, just to > test the burner and figure out how to do it), and I've never booted or > installed off one. For small groups of servers, I NFS mount > installworlds, and for larger groups, I rdist out binaries. But it > always comes from source. You can't do source installations on flash-based systems. You can't do NFS across the Internet (we don't even have RPC working at all on production systems) -- Jo Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation
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