FC6 -> FC7

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 4 22:28:49 UTC 2007


stan wrote:

>>
> After further thought I have a question.  If this failed, would it
> leave the filesystem in a readable state so that data could be pulled
> off.  By failed I mean that it is no longer bootable.  i.e. could I
> boot from another partition and mount the upgraded partition in read
> write mode? 

Yes. That should be doable. Meanwhile I have been asking the Fedora rel 
eng team to enforce proper update paths at the RPM level in the build 
and updates system so that live upgrades are easier but this won't work 
in some cases like a filesystem switch or massive changes.

Rahul




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