[Cialug] uptime

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:56:59PM -0500, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> I just confirmed this with redhat. Yes, it is true you must reboot after
> a kernel update. Wow... I missed the boat on this one...

Heh.  I thought one needed to reboot, too, but kept my mouth
shut on this one for a while because for a time there was a
project I saw referred to as "two-kernel monte" that would allow
you to start a new kernel from a running one.  That was back in
the 2.4 days, at least, maybe earlier, and I hadn't heard much
about it since.  I thought it was defunct, but then you never
know.  LVM hit a rough patch there for a while, and now it seems
to be common enough, for example.

Anyway, my expectation is that even with something like that
going, the uptime counter would reset anyway.

-- 
Joe