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On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:37 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:21 pm, zaimi@pegasus.rutgers.edu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > has anybody worked or thought about a property to upgrade the kernel
> > while the system is running? ie. with all processes waiting in their
> > queues while the resident-older kernel gets replaced by a newer one.
>
> > Would anybody else think this to be an interesting property to have for
> > the linux kernel or care to comment on this idea?
> >
Sure,
I know two industries that do such a thing (almost);
Spacecraft and the Telephone Company (any/all);

I did say almost...
I'll speak of the telephone industry, because I am more familar with it...
There they use two (or more) machines, running near the same program...
The one connected to the outside world of hardware is duplicating the
event in a message, sent to the second...
The second, instead of listening to the outside world is listening to the
messages, duplicating all of the program logic except the hardware i/o.
The memory data structures are identical between the two.
When disaster happens...
Machine two rolls out it's listening modules, rolls in the i/o modules,
sends signal to hardware buss switch to give it the system buss.
Then the fun begins...
Recover the hardware (or at least the billing information).
Note the three points above:
1) Near identical programs
2) Identical data structures
3) Two sets of CPU hardware

Switching from linux-2.4.x to linux-2.6.x doesn't qualify;

The person who asked this question wants to do it on
a single machine - The price just went way up...

Linux uses internal data structures when and wherever
they are needed. Updating them all to be consistant
would be a real b....
Probably you would have to start from scratch and
rebuild them...

Hmm, I think I just said "reboot" the machine with
the new kernel.

Mike
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