Brian Gupta wrote: > What the technical limitations are that are in place that would prevent > me from installing a package cluster, that brings me up to the next > version of Solaris? > > I think it would make upgrade simpler if instead of requiring a seperate > partition, we could do it directly on the filesystem. >
Simpler? Hardly; perhaps "less burdensome for the user" is what you're trying to say? We don't require a separate partition already - just boot from the media instead and do the upgrade. But of course you already knew that. Suddenly mis-matched versions of libraries or kernel modules are the biggest problem. In the limited cases where we do things like this, it's always advisable to quiesce as much of the system as possible and make copies of critical binaries to try and prevent catastrophic behavior, but even then you're taking on risks that are essentially unknown. "Brick" is the term we use for the resulting system when these things go awry... Dave
