5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: accessing quiescent fbsd machine ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Rich Winkel | Dec 2, 1998 6:20 pm | |
| Tom | Dec 2, 1998 6:32 pm | |
| Michael C. Vergallen | Dec 2, 1998 6:54 pm | |
| Tom | Dec 2, 1998 8:49 pm | |
| Matthew D. Fuller | Dec 2, 1998 9:44 pm |
| Subject: | Re: accessing quiescent fbsd machine via network for maintenance | |
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| From: | Matthew D. Fuller (full...@futuresouth.com) | |
| Date: | Dec 2, 1998 9:44:55 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:49:31PM -0800, Tom woke me up to tell me:
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
What I do here is mount the servers / /usr /var and so on directories to /mnt on the build machine and then do a make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt and all gets installed in multiuser mode then I build a kernel for the servers and do a make install for the kernel with the DESTDIR option set. then I unmount the servers filesystems from the buildmachine and do a login to the servers to issue the reboot command. I find this reduces the machines downtime to about 2-3 minutes. Most users don't notice this or can put up with it.
Why not just mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from the build machine on the clients? Less machines need to be setup as NFS servers.
Beat me to it ;p
Sticking everything under /mnt on the build machine does seem kinda bass-ackwards... and it keeps the installed files from being chflag'd too. Plus, it minimizes writes on NFS mounted partitions (ISTR that you can tweak it to have a ro /usr/src and /usr/obj, but I don't remember how).
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