Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:26:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft |
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > 2:31am up 482 days, 6:24, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.08 > > > > I take it this particular kernel doesn't have the > > bugfix yet :) > > Wasn't there an idea mentioned in the l-k mailing list a few months ago > where one could load a new kernel in place of the kernel whilst the system > is still up and running? What became of that? > This would be something I would consider very worth-while, if it is possible. I'm no where near a good enough coder (yet?) to be able to write this myself, but a thought would be to have a simple boot-strap that held everything still while the change was done. Users would see a lag time in response while the change was done because I would think it'd basically have to be atomic (I can't see any other way...), but when running a production envirnment as I do that's greatly preferrable to having to reboot, which on some of the machines I use has to be planned out weeks ahead and takes months to accomplish unless the need is extremely great, ie: the system is about to fall flat on it's face. :)
Stephen
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