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diff --git a/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/ben-yossef/ben-yossef-abstract.tex b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/ben-yossef/ben-yossef-abstract.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6821cc --- /dev/null +++ b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/ben-yossef/ben-yossef-abstract.tex @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +% Building Murphy compatible embedded Linux systems + +% Gilad Ben-Yossef (gilad@codefidence.com) + +It's 2:00 a.m. An embedded Linux system +in the ladies' room of an Albuquerque gas station is +being updated remotely. Just as the last bytes hit the +flash, disaster strikes---the power fails. Now what? +The regular way of updating the configuration or +performing software upgrade of Linux systems is a \textit{nonsequitur} +in the embedded space. Still, many developers +use these methods, or worse, for lack of a better +alternative. This talk introduces a better +alternative---a framework for safe remote configuration and +software upgrade of a Linux system that supports atomic +transactions, parallel, interactive and programmed +updates, and multiple software versions with rollback +and all using using such ``novel'' concepts as POSIX +\ident{rename(2)}, Linux \ident{pivot_root(2)}, and the initrd/initramfs +mechanism. |