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To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel hot-swap using Kexec, BProc and CC/SMP Clusters. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 12:00:15 MDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Mon, 05 May 2003 12:00:15 MDT, Steven Cole said:

> Perhaps two uptimes could be kept. The current concept of uptime would
> remain as is, analogous to the reign of a king (the current kernel), and
> a new integrated uptime would be analogous to the life of a dynasty. The
> dynasty uptime would be one of the many things the new kernel learned
> about on booting. This new dynasty uptime could become quite long if
> everything keeps on ticking.

Make sure you handle the case of a dynasty that starts on a 2.7.13 kernel
and is finally deposed by a power failure in 2.7.39.


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