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SubjectRe: Hot-swappable kernels?
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.

--
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson

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