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 _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list