Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:26:39 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020830132639.B10958@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020830150714.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net>; from jackstone@sage-one.net on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:07:14PM -0500 References: <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>
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--JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 t= he > "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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9b9T+XY6L6fI4GtQRAnTkAJ4gfS8TSuxa+RA5626LvNViCf6GNACfQCQt R811cLqm7vFeEi1AXKsXh/0= =AzSW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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