Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:53:20 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020830205320.GA66525@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> 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> <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:40:31PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > 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.... Why not? My computer does a installworld+mergemaster in approx. 30 minutes and it is an old 166 MHz Pentium with only 32 MB RAM (and with a IDE controller that hasn't even heard of UDMA.) I would expect it to be significantly faster on a modern machine and 15 min sounds quite plausible for a modern laptop with a somewhat slow disk. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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