• narshee
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    6210 months ago

    You don’t need a bootloader if you don’t reboot

    • @Rescuer6394@feddit.nl
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      610 months 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?
      • zea
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        810 months 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.

      • narshee
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        410 months 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.