Re: Is Solaris 10 a good home os?

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Miroslav Zubcic wrote:

You can usually roll back with patchrm(1m) or with ufsrestore(1m). No

Yes, but those (especially the latter) take a looonnnngggg time, which
means more downtime. Live upgrade rollbacks are as simple as one or
two commands and a reboot: only during the reboot is the service down

need for ugly separate disk or partition.

WHat's ugly about extra disks? Have you actually worked in a professional
enterprise environment?!

Are you trying to criticize quality of Solaris patches?

I don't think he is, but occassionally, bad patches get out and it's nice
to be able to recover from that situation. :-/

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