Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:16:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, Lysenko Alexey Victorovich <rainbow@inter-trade.dn.ua>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[4]: I need Your advice Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007051611230.4735-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <12219054308.20000705221012@buz.ch>
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> So updating from 3.4 to 3.5 takes a reboot as well if one decides to > change the Kernel. Not a big difference. I think the other problems > which can occur during the update from 3 to 4 are way bigger (wrong > configfiles etc.). The ability to change the Kernel without rebooting > would be very interesting (and a big advantage over Linux, if that's > worth anything to you guys ;-), though. > Well, that will most likely not happen anytime soon, and I think it's unlikely to happen at all. Yes, updating a kernel with 1 changed source file even requires a reboot. The only time rebooting after recompiling anything that has to do with the kernel is not needed is if you recompile the kernel module for the driver in question, then reload that module. However, I'm not sure that a 3.5 module will work with a 3.4 kernel in all cases, and you are generally better off just rebooting. It should not take that long to reboot anyway; it only takes me about a minute when I'm starting httpd and some other extra daemons at startup (smbd, nmbd, named, sendmail, etc...). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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