From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 30 13:40:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E0937B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AEC43E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g7UKeVS23733; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:40:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:40:31 -0500 To: Brooks Davis From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020830132639.B10958@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3.0.5.32.20020830150714.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <00af01c25054$3024aca0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020830184305.GC11237@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3.0.5.32.20020830150714.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message