Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>
>> I believe "in-place" upgrades are essential, and removing them is a
>> colossal mistake.
>>
>> In fact, I expect in-place upgrades to be the most common upgrade path
>> for many years. Space may be cheaper than it was in the past, but it's
>> certainly not free. Besides, scrapping in-place upgrades means
>> abandoning most of the installed base (including, I suspect, all
>> machines
>> using pre-installed configurations).
>
> Also, even if upgrade succeeds, with development ongoing in
> OpenSolaris there may be a bug that causes a panic on boot that just
> keeps on going. This makes the system unusable as well if you can't
> even get to the failsafe mode. Live upgrade at least allows you to get
> the system back up and running.
Actually, This is important. I wouldn't consider upgrading at all
without having the alternate boot environment to go back to. 4GB of disk
is worth it. Of course it's only the speedy release schedule of NV, and
the fact that I"m using it on a test machine, that get's me to upgrade
at all.
-Kyle
