Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 13:05:50 EST


On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> I think I see a business opportunity here.

        [snip technically risky idea]

> The 24x7 places might be willing to pay somebody to do this.

Unlikely. They need hardware redundancy anyway, so they'll
just upgrade their cluster node-by-node, without doing
risky and potentially data-corrupting things like live
kernel upgrades.

Rik

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