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[-] Rescuer6394@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

on a serious note, is possible to never reboot?

like an high availability server that can't never go down, how do they manage kernel updates? *

  • yes i know that now there is kube and docker etc and you can update the container with zero downtime. but how they did it 10 years ago?
[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Kernel live patching, which basically rewires kernel functions at runtime, lets you update the kernel without rebooting. I don't remember how old that is though.

[-] example@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago
[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That's still downtime, it just doesn't reboot firmware

[-] narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

You can go without rebooting if you always have power, don't care about updates (security) and don't run into bugs.

It's done with multiple servers I guess. One updates/reboots while the other ones don't.

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