On 13/04/2006 12:27 a.m., Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 06:51, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
That's why there's "scheduled downtime" and "after hours" to do these things, in case stuff goes wrong, as some users of horde with dovecot have found out lately ;)
What's 'after hours' for a company with users all around the world? Interesting concept, though...
The same time you'd do routine maintenance on other systems and networks I guess.
I'm just not sure why people want to do upgrade surgery on critical systems running on dovecot at any time, leave it in a 95% working state and hope users don't notice, whereby upgrading any other service would be done in a more controlled manner at a planned date/time with a full clean restart of the service. It only takes 10-15s to shut the child processes down and restart them, and then you know that everything is running properly on the new version.
Upgrading apache/sendmail/postfix/bind/qmail all requires a full service restart of the master and child processes, I'm not sure why there are complaints when dovecot just takes on the same behaviour.
reuben