Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:42:32 +0200 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrod-me@bezeqint.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Message-ID: <20030103084232.GA3371@localhost.bsd.net.il> In-Reply-To: <20030103062708.GA426@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> References: <200212170023.gBH0Nvlu000764@beast.csl.sri.com> <20030103000232.GA52181@blazingdot.com> <Pine.GSO.4.51.0301021738490.19685@xmission.xmission.com> <20030103062708.GA426@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:27:08AM +0100, Thomas Seck wrote: > * J. Scott Edwards (sedwards@xmission.com): > > > That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or > > if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere > > that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? > > You do not want your favourite OS to support that. > > Why go people that nuts about uptimes anyway? When I have to reboot to > load a new kernel because of security fixes, so what? Think about compute servers. Our CAD servers can run simulations and other types of processes for ~40 hours. You definitely don't want to interrupt a running system and it finding some idle time for service gets really difficult. However, even with the Linux project, one cannot keep his processes running... Would be nice if you could upgrade subsystems one at a time. This way one could, for example, shutdown the network subsystem, load the new version and restart it. Just a thought. And uptimes are not important. Downtimes *are*. -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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