<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Jason Moran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmoran@secureachsystems.com">jmoran@secureachsystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry for such a basic question:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>If I do a ‘make current’ while a system is
running it will not have any effect until I restart FS, correct?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>What if ‘make current’ fails? What if it
fails and the server gets restarted, will FS work?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Is it more advisable to stop FS, do the ‘make
current’, then start FS even though it will have a longer down time?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know it’s best to keep FS up-to-date – but it
is difficult when you only have 1 system available and it is expected to have
100% uptime..<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<br>
Jason</p></div></div></blockquote><br>Since you don't have a spare system (which is totally naughty, btw, especially if your corporate overlords expect 100% uptime) then my next question would be this: how are you set on CPU power, RAM, and disk space? The reason I ask is that it is entirely possible to create a secondary git clone of the FS repo and use a completely different install path when running the configure script. You could "make current" in that secondary repo and get a sort of preview of what would happen w/o touching your production build env or install dirs. If the update goes well in your test scenario then you could do the update in your production environment.<br>
<br> It's kinda hackish but if you have spare disk space then it's a really cheap option. It isn't perfect, but it does give you at least some semblance of "try before you buy." <br><br>-MC<br></div>