[olug] Ksplice

[Kevin]

Yep, Oracle bought them and now they're part of Oracle's Linux, which last
I heard was called Unbreakable Linux(no, it's not April Fools' Day). But
even ksplice and never rebooting won't protect you from eventual hardware
failures or obsolescence. The former WILL happen, its just a matter of
WHEN, and the latter........well, do you want to be running on 20-year old
hardware? And in a business environment no less? Already my ~10 year old
computers are starting to feel slow(I don't like to spend money on
hardware). Alternatively, think about what computers you were running 20
years ago. I'm young enough that those memories are kind of fuzzy, but
think about the kind of hardware that was available then.

I think that you're going to want to make it a cluster, not a machine that
never reboots.

On Jul 19, 2012 9:49 PM, "Trent Melcher" <trentm at q.com> wrote:

> I find it kind of odd that Oracle bought this rather than looking into
> clustering their OS.  If you truly need a highly available application
> your going to put it in a cluster.  With that ksplice is pointless, take
> a node out of the cluster patch and reboot it, reintroduce it to the
> cluster.  No downtime for the application needed.
>
> Trent
>
> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:41 -0500, Dave Thacker wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:55:18 AM Sam Flint wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any experience using KSplice? I'm thinking about
> > > using it on a new machine that's kinda important(file/web/mail
> > > server).  What are your thoughts?
> > >
> > > Sam
> >
> >
> > Oracle is only offering commercial support for their own Red Hat clone.
>  You
> > can *never* reboot this machine?
> >
> > Dave Thacker
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