Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:55:22 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Hot-swappable kernels? |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 04:54:29PM +0000, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Martin Ranang Thorsen wrote: > > With the awareness that I now might make a complete fool of myself, I > > still want to ask some questions, with the hope of getting > > enlightened. I've been looking for the answers to this topic for some > > time now, but I've found none yet. > > There has been a discussion in comp.arch about making operating systems > hot-swappable. This does require deep design changes and it's very > unlikely that Linux will make these design changes just for being > hot-swappable. There are swappable parts in the kernel (modules), but > they all require to take that specific service down before swap.
You could sort of fake it in a cluster that supports process migration though: migrate all the processes away to another machine, switch kernels, and then migrate the processes back.
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