Jordan Brown wrote: > Jens Elkner wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:55:36PM -0700, Steve Lawrence wrote: >> >>>> The list of use cases is really pretty simple: >>>> >>>> 1) Administrator has in hand a patch that says "install in single user >>>> mode". What does this administrator do? The answer seems self-evident: >>>> take the system to single-user mode (either by booting the system in >>>> single-user mode using boot -s or boot -m milestone/single-user, or >>>> dropping the system to single-user mode using "init s" or "svcadm >>>> milestone milestone/single-user") and install the patch using patchadd. >>>> >> Wrong assumption here. Often drivers etc. gets patched with "need single user >> mode", which are not used by the system at all (e.g. fc). So the admin >> says, don't care and go ahead - don't wanna take the system out of >> service... >> > > Indeed. First, I should have said "what we we *recommend* that this > administrator do?".
As LiveUpgrade becomes trivial with ZFS boot, will this be a long-term problem? -- richard
