[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Ian Murdock]

Ben Creitz wrote:
> I usually hear Linux sysadmins being suspicious of automated upgrade
> from one 'release' to the next, favoring clean installs which give
> them complete control and force them to carefully review the system in
> question, which they should do once in a while anyway.  It seems like
> a lot of work goes in to making release upgrades work, but if you read
> for example the msgs on a LUG mailing list, everytime a new release of
> distro X comes out, a bunch of people try to upgrade to that release
> using the automated mechanism, the mechanism screws something up, and
> they end up doing a fresh install.

Fortunately, with ZFS, we will very easily be able to implement rollback
in the event upgrades go wrong. "Copying Linux?" Pshaw! -ian

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