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You don’t need a bootloader if you don’t reboot

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That’s why it’s called FOSB: Free and Open Source Bloat… Grand Unified Bloatloader, U-Bloat…

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on a serious note, is possible to never reboot?

like an high availability server that can’t never go down, how do they manage kernel updates? *

  • yes i know that now there is kube and docker etc and you can update the container with zero downtime. but how they did it 10 years ago?
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Kernel live patching, which basically rewires kernel functions at runtime, lets you update the kernel without rebooting. I don’t remember how old that is though.

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there’s also kexec

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You can go without rebooting if you always have power, don’t care about updates (security) and don’t run into bugs.

It’s done with multiple servers I guess. One updates/reboots while the other ones don’t.

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every day we strive further from god

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