On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Shane C Branch wrote:

> Just wondering if this is possible, and if so how difficult is this to 
> do? I know many commercial sites cannot afford downtime so this would be 
> a good option for them.
> 
> As for me, I just think it would be interesting to try. I just 
> recompiled from the 2.4.4 to 2.4.19, and lost my 169 days of uptime due 
> to the reboot.
> 

Sure you can recompile the kernel without rebooting, but you need to 
reboot in order to start running the new kernel :)

Perhaps Linux will have hotswappable kernels someday, but not today.


Does anyone know if 2.5 can be upgraded without a reboot?

-- 
Arend



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