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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 23:22 +0100, Ross Bearman wrote: > Interesting article for all the server administrators out there (and > probably anyone else). > > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/the-end-of-physical-reboots-with-linux-27137 > > Use kexec to update the kernel (or just change it to a different one) > without having to physically reboot the system. All applications and > connections will be closed, but they'll start back up a lot quicker > than a server boot would take (only really important if you're either > an uptime junkie, or second matter to your business.) Sounds like a half-way-house between suspend/hibernate and reboot. Hmmm. Not sure what the benefit will be, other than playing games with uptime. If all services are restarted, it's still scheduled downtime. What happens about fsck as well? Isn't this just going to make it worse when fsck finally does run after unscheduled downtime? That will add a large slice of extra time to any failure. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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