Discussion -- perhaps a trollette -- re: upgrades !

[Dave Stevens]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 07:43:15 am Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:35:12AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Mostly that it is really really hard to do right and
> > you'd probably never get the kind of discipline and
> > testing require from the wild west open source
> > community :-).
>
> Actually, this has already been done with Ksplice (http://www.ksplice.com).
>
> It claims to run with Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Parallels, Debian, and SuSE.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> 	Dave Ihnat
> 	dihnat at dminet.com

and on that point, I've done kernel upgrades to my Centos 5.3 box many times 
with no reboot.

Dave


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