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Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots
evanbro writes "ZDNet is reporting on ksplice, a system for applying patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting. ksplice requires no kernel modifications, just the source, the config files, and a patch. Author Jeff Arnold discusses the system in a technical overview paper (PDF). Ted Ts'o comments, 'Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don't want downtime, this stuff is pure gold.'"
Update: 04/24 10:04 GMT by KD : Tomasz Chmielewsk writes on LKML that the idea seems to be patented by Microsoft.
Oh goody another KDawson post. Isn't there a way to filter them out?
Brilliant...
Let all of us go through the MS patents, and write an article or tech paper on it pertaining to Linux so we can pretend we invented the concept.
Hell, most Linux users ignore Microsoft, so they would buy it 99% of the time, until they do it and MS knocks on the door and goes, "Nope..."
If we are going to apply this stuff to Linux, we need to at least give Microsoft credit or pretend it is not our 'brainchild', and maybe Micorsoft will continue to leave us alone.
Geesh...