From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267837AbUHJX4h (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267835AbUHJX4h (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:56:37 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.91]:14611 "EHLO anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267832AbUHJX4W (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: <411960A1.2070702@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:56:17 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040805) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC] zero downtime upgrades to the kernel. References: <41195339.9080500@superbug.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > >>Has anyone investigated how one might be able to upgrade the linux kernel >>without rebooting? >> > > > This pops up now and again. > > I myself posted a mail with the same suggestion back in 1998 > http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9808.1/1282.html . > Colin Slater suggested it in 2001 > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0107.1/0313.html and there > are additional occourances of this in the archives as well... > > -- > Jesper Juhl > Thank you....stop this thread now. ;-)