On Nov 14 00:14:19, pa...@ecentryx.com wrote: > But the very next step in the upgrade blows away the system by overwriting > it anyway. Right? > > What could happen? What if following the normal procedure of untaring the OS > sets on top of the existing system fails midway? Then you have an > inconsistent system too.
Yes, you have an inconsistent system, as opposed to nothing. > This behavior of mine may stem from my days as a hard-real-time embedded > systems engineer where we had to get rid of every single byte that did not > matter. I used to count the assembly instructions and add up all the clock > cycles for each hardware interrupt routine to make sure we would never > stall/slow the system. I just like minimal I guess. Say I compile a C program on your system, which gets linked to /usr/lib/libc.so.84.2. After an upgrade, my program no longer works. Bad, bad admin!
