> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:20:24 -0700 > From: David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thus spake Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.
No. I run mergemaster on another system to confirm what needs to be merged before reboot or can be installed with no complications. Then plan what I will have to do with any files that require merging. This is far different from just rushing through things and risking s disaster. It is, as the subject of the thread states, "Updating world with least downtime". I like the idea of an "early-run" using -D, though. I might do that next time I update a system. Should be even faster than what I do and less prone to error. Thanks for the suggestion. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
