Re: Debian vs. Red Hat
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:31:51AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:01:14PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:49:04PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> > >
> > > Shoot, I ran from Buzz to Potato on one system until its disk died. Never
> > > even rebooted except when the power failed.
> >
> > btw: Is it possible to switch kernels without rebooting.
>
> no, not with linux anyway. i have read somewhere that (i think Sun)
> had a way to load a new kernel without rebooting, but they STRONGLY
> reccommended going to single user mode before attempting it. which
> kind of defeats the purpose since going single user stops all services
> and kicks off all users so all you have really saved is your uptime
> (which has dubious meaning after such a radical procedure anyway)
In Hurd you can replace any of the existing servers (disk filesystem
servers, network servers, etc.) without rebooting. The only thing you
can't change is the microkernel (gnumach) but that's not needed often
:)
Bye!
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> Ethan Benson
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