A couple of rants about Launchpad

[David Gerard]

2009/3/9 Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:

> I'd expect that people doing serious production server upgrades would
> normally try it out on a test server first, which usually helps a bit,
> though I realise that it's *much* better for it to just work.


Certainly ... but it helps to know that it at least should work.


> (We've been kicking around some slightly crazy ideas about using
> something like aufs to make the "test upgrade and rollback if it goes
> wrong" approach as easy as possible ...)


Ooooooh ... that sounds interesting. Pity ext4 doesn't offer snapshots
(as far as I know).


- d.