Perhaps, but the fact that it *could* fail means that you have to be prepared fo...

NeutronBoy on March 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0

Perhaps, but the fact that it could fail means that you have to be prepared for a server outage when you attempt it anyway. In which case... the utility of 'rebootless patching' goes down a lot, because why not just reboot it?

eru on March 4, 2015 [–]

Because there's less downtime in the vast majority of cases?