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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
