2011/3/25 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As you don't expect a server to be in desperate need of new features and >> new supported hardware I personally don't think that the latest kernel >> is needed. >> >> What do the others think about it? > > No. But what I understood from what Thomas said is: as you need to reboot > your server anyway from time to time to apply security updates, you may > decide to switch to an even more often updated kernel, if your architecture > permit it (reboot != service interruption). you could try the ksplice route as it's enterprise level quality at this point -- though for arch you'd have to create/apply the splices yourself. i'll be soon attempting this with our gentoo servers (as much as i like arch ... nope :-) manually; for other distros like redhat/ubuntu there is a tool that can apply them from ksplice.com (only the desktop editions are free ... albeit $3-$5/mo/server is pretty decent) the idea is you compile the running kernel and the destination kernel (the patched version w/security updates/etc), then (IIRC) ksplice analyzes the resultant objects, generating a special module that applies a reversible update to the running kernel in real time. pretty neat :-) C Anthony
