Messages in this thread | | | From | (Stuart Lynne) | Subject | Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting? | Date | 11 Jul 2001 17:10:54 -0700 |
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In article <994895240.21189@whiskey.enposte.net>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> wrote:
>The best proposal I've heard so far was to use MOSIX to do live job >migration between machines, and then upgrade the kernel like normal. >In the end, it is the jobs that are running on the kernel, and not >the kernel or the individual machine that are the most important. One >person pointed out that there is a single point of failure in the >MOSIX "stub" machine, which doesn't help you in the end (how do you >update the kernel there?). If you can figure a way to enhance MOSIX >to allow migrating the MOSIX "stub" processes to another machine, you >will have solved your problem in a much easier way, IMHO.
If you then think of using VMWare or S/390 style methods of running multiple copies of Linux on a single system you can now consider migrating processes to a new kernel on the same system.
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