From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 8 1:10:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA74837B69C for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA66910; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:10:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Matthew Luckie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:10:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matthew Emmerton's message of "Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:14:50 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton writes: > I've got a 3.2-R machine which I'm forced to maintain, and the only reason > why it's not running 3.2-S or 4.2-S is because I can't take the stupid > thing offline. I've haggled with my boss for a 6 hour window and the > answer is no, no, no. I've even got a 3.2-S installation waiting in > /usr/obj. You don't need a six-hour window. Take a level 0 dump of the box, restore it on a scratch box, upgrade the scratch box and test it. If you can, write a script that does the entire upgrade. When you're sure you've got it down pat, take the production box down for however long you need to upgrade it (somewhere between half an hour and two hours depending on disk speeds and how much tinkering is needed). DES (been there, done that) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message