Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:40:31 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020830154031.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20020830132639.B10958@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 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>
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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.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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