On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:30:25PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Dean Roehrich wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:56:46PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > >>Dean Roehrich wrote: > >>>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:06:59PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > >>>>>WRT IPS, deployment into large enterprise SMP servers should not > >>>>>require a reboot to effect a file system update. The pkg team should > >>>>>also think about shared multi platform system architectures. > >>>>Well, clearly ZFS cannot be updated on a live system :-); the same is > >>>>likely true for UFS. Do you really distribute fixes to SAMFS that > >>>>require the filesystems to be unmounted, but don't require a reboot? > >>>Yes. We really do that, and we really don't require a reboot :) > >>> > >>>So, going back to Todd's email from July 2: > >>What changes do you deliver to QAMFS that *don't* require a reboot, and > >>which ones do? Do they ever? > > > >We don't require a reboot for upgrade or install. > > So there are no kernel modules involved? No programs that are ever > changed that could stop working if not rebooted?
Yes, we have a kernel module. No, we do not require a reboot for upgrade or install. We _do_ require that the product (not the operating system) be properly shutdown prior to upgrade. Dean _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
