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    20040720 Tuesday July 20, 2004

    dtrace mibs...

    Jon Haslam has a nice blog entry on the new mib provider in dtrace. Worth a look.


    (2004-07-20 07:07:25.0) Permalink

    Live Upgrade

    So after years of just jumpstarting my machine on my way out of the office when a new build comes out I decided to bite the bullet and play around with Live Upgrade. So what is Live Upgrade I hear you ask, to put it simply its a method of upgrading your system while your system is still running, and as such minimising downtime.

    Basically make sure you have a partition/disk available thats the same size as your root disk, and as root call /usr/sbin/lu and follow the menu options to first create and then upgrade an alternative boot partition. Finally you just activate the boot env and [updated] init 6 [/update] (don't use reboot, the new partition won't be picked up).

    Of course all of this can be scripted as well, next experiment ;).
    (2004-07-20 04:19:53.0) Permalink