On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:18:51 +0000, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:44:16 +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > >> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 23:36, Don wrote: >>> With MS Windows, it seems a reboot is required after nearly every >>> software update. > >> In principle, the only update for which a reboot is needed is Linux >> (since it is the most common kernel of the GNU system), but even this >> may change in the future. > > That would be good, it would certainly massively cut downtime on servers. > > The only way I can think of implementing this would be to perform a kind > of quick suspend/resume, where the "resume" remaps to a new running > kernel, but surely all services and current tasks would need to be > restarted too. Of course another way would be to run the kernel in User-mode, but I'm not sure how useful that would be for non-development implementations ... particularly servers. - K.
