> Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but a flash archive is > simply the clone of > a system that you can then easily get up and running. > The whole > JumpStart framework is pretty cool, and in my opinion > a great feature > but it's completely missing the whole package > management boat in my > opinion. How do I use a flash archive to (for lack of > a better example) > emulate the functionality of apt-get'ing the latest > production version > of my binaries to a set of servers?
It's a different provisioning model. You configure a master system with all your software and patches preinstalled, then create a compressed Flash(TM) archive out of it. So you would "update" only one system, and flash the hardware all at once at the onset of the next upgrade / maintenace cycle. Then in the JumpStart postinstall phase, you'd automatically install any additional packages which you patched or updated, also from a central repository. It's much more efficient than running an update on every system, and the hardware simply becomes an off of the shelf commodity part. (Service availability would be provided via clustering in this scenario, if desired.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
