Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:00:12 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: David Wilk <admin@cia-g.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade maintenance vs. debian (please help) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0207221756440.26660-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020722094844.D9023@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, David Wilk wrote: > I'm currently lusting after the superior performance (in so many respects) > of the FreeBSD kernel (and I prefer the BSD style init) but am apprehensive > about the update/upgrade process. > > so, FreeBSD advocates and experienced sysadmins, convince me to go FreeBSD, > Please! For a really speedy update, use two system drives; one that / and /usr, etc. are live on, and one that are a spitting image. install kernel and world + mergemaster, etc to the "off-line" copy and reboot into that. Then switch your notion of "live" and "sidelined" if the reboot is successful: sync the sidelined copy up to the new version. This works better with a read-mostly / and /usr: ie, if you've got your manpages caching elsewhere, log files and other stuff somewhere else, and if you can minimise the changes to / (master.password is the obvious bit that gets written regularly). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "No generalised law is without exception." A self-demonstrating axiom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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