Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which SUP files are available and where ? Message-ID: <199509181857.LAA04341@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199509181222.WAA23402@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 18, 95 10:22:13 pm
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> > >> As for the long term support, I think we should consider CTM as the > >> distribution mechanism rather than sup. > > >For those who have a high-speed net connection, CTM is a lose. It's > > This assumes an infinitely high-speed server or a small number of > clients. You run out of ethernet before you run out of CPU power on anything faster than a DX4/100 with 32MB of memory doing sup services. A Pentium 100 can keep a 100Mb/s pipe clear full of sup with 64Mb of memory. I would call that very very far from ``infinitely high-speed'' and actually falls into the mid-range systems for me. > > >too easy to get your source tree into a state where CTM decides that > >it can't do anything, and then you have to do manual repair, whereas > >with SUP you can just blow away the breakage and automatically get > >fresh copies with little or no human intervention. > > Use restore(8) to recover a consistent state. And now folks know why /usr/src is always a seperate partition on my systems, and on almost everything I sell :-). I do use restore a lot around here, infact installs are actuall ``restores'' of my last known good stable build :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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