On 23 February 2015 at 09:01, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:13:28 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But if you ask the folks who are hungry for live bug patching, they >> wouldn't care. >> >> You mentioned "10 seconds", that's more or less equal to infinity to them. > > 10 seconds outage is unacceptable, but we're running our service on a > single machine with no failover. Who is doing this??
if I had to guess, telcos generally, you've only got one wire between a phone and the exchange and if the switch on the end needs patching it better be fast. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

