Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Jason Smith (jason@artcomp-design.com)
Thu, 6 May 1999 15:21:53 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 6 May 1999, Ian D Romanick wrote:

>
> Even more important in a cluster is the ability to do a rolling upgrade.
> Shut one system down while the other one stays up. Upgrade the OS on the
> system that you shutdown and reboot. Do the same thing on the other system.
> It's (in theory) the no-downtime OS upgrade. Can Linux or Windows do that?
> I know that Solaris, Digital UNIX, and Sequent PTX can.

why would one OS be better than any other in something like this? I don't
see any reason linux couldnt do something like this.

(please erase my ignorance)

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