* Piotrek Kapczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-16 15:51]: > 2008/1/16, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Piotrek Kapczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-16 14:18]: > > > Didn't know it is exactly the same as options. I found it in > > > flashboot. I'll look more in to other flashboot customisations. Thanks > > > for pointing this out. > > > > flash boot and teh like are obsolete ways to complicate your life. > > Let me disagree with you. > Actually it's fantastic to have one system image which you can deploy > on dozen of firewalls remotely. > > Upgrade procedure from 4.1 to 4.2 ? > scp bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "reboot" > > Total downtime = reboot time.
in-place updates are trivial enough to be scripted if you can make a few assumptions for your environment. even if not scripted, they're easy enough. my update downtime is no more than that reboot, no matter what machine, flash or not. > Also, everything is on ramdisk so stupid users or power outages > doesn't concern you. Routers reboot and work unattended. boohoo. /tmp /var /dev in mfs w/ the last two prepopulated from flash and the rest mounted readonly, same thing. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
