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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:05:50 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Switching Kernels without Rebooting?
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> I think I see a business opportunity here.

	[snip technically risky idea]

> The 24x7 places might be willing to pay somebody to do this.

Unlikely. They need hardware redundancy anyway, so they'll
just upgrade their cluster node-by-node, without doing
risky and potentially data-corrupting things like live
kernel upgrades.

Rik
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