Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:18:54 +1000 | Subject | Re: live kernel upgrades (was: live kernel patching design) | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On 23 February 2015 at 09:01, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:13:28 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote: > >> But if you ask the folks who are hungry for live bug patching, they >> wouldn't care. >> >> You mentioned "10 seconds", that's more or less equal to infinity to them. > > 10 seconds outage is unacceptable, but we're running our service on a > single machine with no failover. Who is doing this??
if I had to guess, telcos generally, you've only got one wire between a phone and the exchange and if the switch on the end needs patching it better be fast.
Dave.
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