From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 24 22:04:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DED16A498 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:04:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7149C43D46 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:04:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from tripel (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3OM41la002855; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:04:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:05:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: Jonathan Horne In-Reply-To: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> Message-ID: <20060424175947.R2518@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: learning to buildworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:04:09 -0000 On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: > [...] the installworld comes while in single user mode, and my > production server would see quite a bit of downtime over this. Just a couple more data points. I have two machines, an elderly K6-2 running at 400 MHz and a relatively modern P4 running at 3.4 GHz. 'make installworld' takes about 8 minutes on the slow machine, and just a few seconds on the fast one. Point being that you needn't have much downtime for this. > ive seen several articles on the net, and of course, no one agrees on > the exact steps to take to update your system. my question is, is it > safe to 'mergemaster' and 'make installworld' while still up and > running? or do i just need to bite the downtime-bullet, and put it in > single user? That's what I would do, but it depends on how lucky you feel. There are ways to get to the console without traveling to the colo. HTH, and good luck. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]