Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Thu Sep 2 01:14:46 UTC 2010
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> What exactly is ksplice meant to do?
>> I yum-installed it today,
>> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel.
>> I expected this to start running, but it didn't.
>> Admittedly I didn't read any instructions.
>>
>
>
> Sounds very cool, and I had not heard of it before today also, but here
> is the results of yum info ksplice:
>
> Summary : Patching a Linux kernel without reboot
> URL : http://ksplice.com
> License : GPLv2
> Description : Ksplice allows system administrators to apply security
> patches to
> : the Linux kernel without having to reboot. Ksplice takes as
> : input a source code change in unified diff format and the
> : kernel source code to be patched, and it applies the patch
> : to the corresponding running kernel. The running kernel does
> : not need to have been prepared in advance in any way.
>
> Is it too good to be true?
Sorry, but it sounds to me as though it is much easier to re-boot.
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