[OpenIndiana-discuss] 'pkg image-update' and BEs

[Aneurin Price]

On 25 June 2012 15:44, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aneurin,
>
> I'd expect one of the design goals of the whole image-update process was to
> work with as little interruption as possible (we had this in live upgrade
> as well, so the historical precedent is fairly clear, IMO anyway): you
> could run your update, watch it finish, analyse logs etc., all while the
> machine (think "big server") was up and running *completely unchanged*.
> Only when/if you're satisfied that the update did what you expected it to
> do, you could (schedule a) reboot. IMO that's a much safer approach than
> what you describe.

Ah, that way of working is new to me, but it does make a lot of sense.

Thank you both for your quick replies - it seems a lot clearer now,
especially with the distinction between a backup BE and a new BE.