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minus-squarenarshee@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoYou don’t need a bootloader if you don’t reboot
minus-square5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s why it’s called FOSB: Free and Open Source Bloat… Grand Unified Bloatloader, U-Bloat…
minus-squareRescuer6394@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoon 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?
minus-squarezea@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoKernel 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.
minus-squarezea@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat’s still downtime, it just doesn’t reboot firmware
You don’t need a bootloader if you don’t reboot
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That’s why it’s called FOSB: Free and Open Source Bloat… Grand Unified Bloatloader, U-Bloat…
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? *
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.
there’s also kexec
That’s still downtime, it just doesn’t reboot firmware