Fedora 12 staged for mirrors, rawhide moving on soon

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 11/14/2009 05:22 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:09 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> For heaven's sake, no!
>>>
>>> Don't you realize this means a ton of *users* will start to bog down the
>>> mirrors before the whole data set has propagated through the network?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're expecting, but users will only be able to get
>> to the Everything tree, which is nearly 100% hardlinks into the
>> development/ tree.  There are no isos, no install images, nothing but
>> rpms and repodata.  They will not be able to get to the isos which are
>> behind locked dirs.
>>
> 
> So, can I do preupgrade now (I have plenty of /boot)?

Yes. As always, having a backup of your data is a good thing.

Rahul