Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:20:24 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, 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: <20020831002024.GA390@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020830211107.8251F5D06@ptavv.es.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> <20020830211107.8251F5D06@ptavv.es.net>
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Thus spake Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>: > For a modern system and a reasonable disk, this is trivial. I have a > system which MUST not be down for over 15 minutes and I can do it > quite easily unless I really fumble something in mergemaster. I do > always merge a few files later and tend to install most changes very > quickly, having ode the same upgrade on a non-critical system just > before I do the critical one so I know what to expect. > > The actual installworld time on my 1GHZ system is about 5 minutes > (5:34 last time). Nice record. There ought to be a better solution than ``run mergemaster really fast and hope nothing goes wrong,'' though. For example, you could use mergemaster with -D on a copy of /etc and commit the copy in single user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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