On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com>wrote:
> On 06/29/2009 10:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > It can only handle small patches which don't change > > any data structures. So the official Fedora kernel updates will never be > > suitable to be distributed through KSplice. > > And to date there hasn't really been any compelling reason to issue tiny > patch security-updated kernels, 'cause you have to reboot anyway, right? > But as the technology improves, more opportunities arise. > > I recall deploying some sort of hack workaround for the vmsplice exploit > a while back on a whole bunch of machines (Fedora or downstreams) that > were going to need a reboot scheduled up to a week in the future. This > kind of technology would have been really swell to have then. > > Lots of reasons to not want to reboot machines - most of the arguments > for supporting laptop suspend would fit. Some of them may fall into the > "protecting users from themselves" category, but that's not a bad thing > either. > > -Bill > > -- > Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 > BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 > http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Cell: 603.252.2606 > Twitter, etc.: bill_mcgonigle Page: 603.442.1833 > Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com > Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ > VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf > Also, while KSplice is currently being used for kernel updates, it isn't limited to those. It could be adapted to work for other updates that normally force a reboot. Though, I can't think of any off the top of my head, it has been over a week since I ran the updater...
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