Dave Miner wrote:
>> What updates in Solaris require a reboot? For updates that do require
>> a reboot, having the last known good state available in the grub
>> menu would be the way to go here. FWIW, in Linux, we got it down to just
>> the kernel, and even that could be done in place with patches at one
>> point. I.e., that's our benchmark, or at least what people will expect..
>>
> 
> It would be desirable, but your near-term is probably going to need
> reboots for most upgrades, because we haven't attempted to factor the
> system to avoid them.  Even where we sort of did (if you look at the
> existing patching that way) it really hasn't worked out that well.

I'd guess that would be a requirement for an eventual package management system
- to be able to split packages up into whether they required a reboot or not.


Glynn
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