[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Alvaro Lopez Ortega]

Ian Murdock wrote, On 15/06/07 20:58:
 > 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

   I have missed almost all the discussion, but I have to say that to
   relay/depend on a certain file system for ensuring the safeness of
   the upgrading mechanism certainly doesn't look to me like the right
   thing to do.

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Greetings, alo.