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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30 September 2010 06:07, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I like the idea of a fixed downtime budget a lot.
>
> What do we need to make it happen?
>
> My thoughts:
>
>  * A feedback mechanism allowing us to track how much of the budget is spent.
>    * Something like a script that extracts a measure from the staging update?
>  * Once the budget is spent, no more DB changes.
>  * We probably need a way to input the budget for case where a OS maintenance
>    task will shrink the DB budget.

It seems like, by saying "no more DB changes", you're anticipating a
budget that refills only every several months or so. That's a pretty
interesting idea.  I thought what Robert was saying, though, was a cap
at 90 minutes on any single outage.

-- 
Martin