[3642] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Multi-partition Sun stats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 19 19:57:25 2002
Message-Id: <200212200052.TAA14172@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Dec 2002 18:22:25 EST."
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:52:32 -0500
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:04, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> > The chances of anything that is still running 9.0 or earlier wanting
> > to update to 9.2 seems pretty small, and can probably be ignored
> > safely.
>
> I'm concerned about this assertion.
>
> It means we're telling people before 9.0, "No you can't update, you can
> only re-install." Have we already been saying this to significant
> pie-slices of our users?
oops, lost thins one in my inbox. We have made it impossible to
update certain machines without re-installing them in the past. There
are currtely 12 machines with hesiod indicating they would be unable
to take 8.4, 15 unable to take 9.0, and 37 unable to take 9.1. At
least some of these can't take the relevant update, because their disk
partitions are too small, but I don't know how many are there for
other reasons (eg. ss20s cant take 9.0, sun4m hardware can't take 9.1).
Note that this is the same assertion we were talking about making for
people running 9.1. The reason I think it is at least somewhat more
reasonable for 9.0 machines is that if someone hasn't taking 9.1 yet,
the chances of their doing so are relatively small, to say nothing of
them wanting to update to 9.2.
All of that said, I'm not at all sure that forcing people to
re-install if we don't have to is a good idea.
Jonathon
