Lessons from the Debian compromise

Posted Dec 19, 2003 16:48 UTC (Fri) by helgehaf (guest, #10306)
In reply to: Lessons from the Debian compromise by copsewood
Parent article: Lessons from the Debian compromise

There's no need to schedule downtime for this.

Take advantage of the fact that a scsi disk is accessible from several machines at once (by connecting two host adapters.)

The disk that is "main disk" for one machine is mounted read-only for checking by another machine. The other machine always boot cleanly because
it boots from a unwriteable cdrom. It can tell if something bad happens to files on the "shared" disk.