From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 2 18:42:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E452C37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5F443EA9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20030103024201.JRAI8759.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:42:01 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20030103133727.01cdda00@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: pop.ozemail.com.au:rbyrnes@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 13:40:56 +1100 To: "Aaron Burke" From: Rob B Subject: RE: FreeBSD Stability Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" , "J. Scott Edwards" In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:25 3/01/2003, Aaron Burke sent this up the stick: > > That is impressive. I'm curious if they stayed at a particular version or > > if they update as new versions are available? I thought I read somewhere > > that FreeBSD could load a new kernel without rebooting? > >I am interested in this, and I must admit that I dont really know that >much about the kernel, but if anyone knows of a nice way to do this, >PLEASE Let me know. This would be a great for those occational updates >to freebsd-stable. I would get to keep my uptime. However, I dont think >that this is possible. Don't think (pretty darn sure actually) that FreeBSD can do this ... howver - there is a project for Linux that has this capability. Check out the Two Kernel Monte at http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/monte.html cheers, Rob -- "He whose lust lasts, lasts longest." - Harold Pinter(?) This is random quote 37 of a collection of 1269 Distance from the centre of the brewing universe: [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message