On 2014-09-12 14:03, Guido Günther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
[..snip..]
The problem with restarting applications and subsystems is that you
never know if the loose state information if you just restart them
(e.g. Inkscape going down on upgrade would be pretty
annoying). Also,
Why should it go down? It's mapped into memory already. There can be
problems with plugins but it would make more sense to think about
these details than resorting to rebooting (twice!). Btrfs could show a
way
forward here.
With plugins and, say, dbus services. Btrfs could also show a way just
like Nexenta did with updates and rollbacks to a known good state from
grub using snapshots. Oh well.
Restarting the whole system is a pretty pragmatic solution for the
problem, you have to restart to use a new kernel as well anyway.
There KSplice among others.
[citation needed]
Yes, there is. And kgraft and kpatch. But does anyone happen to know
someone actively publishing patches for them?
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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