Randy Wyatt <rwwyatt01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a serious lack of understanding where Linux is, and where > most want it to be in this thread. A presumptive reboot does not > actually provide any benefit whatsoever, and in fact often exacerbates > situations. I work in situations where downtime is measured in the > millions of dollars per minute category, and we have never been able > to accept such requirements as provided by certain vendors such as HP > which mandated monthly downtime to install patches. I started out > with the presumptive reboot issue. It was hard enough to get > customers to agree to any modicum of a regular patch cycle. If a minute downtime is millions of USD, you surely can afford a few thousands to set up several machines and failover, soy you /can/ do the patching and rebooting without visible downtime. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
