Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 16:09 UTC
One of the problem with operating system updates is that you often need to reboot the system. While this is nothing but a minor nuisance for us desktop users, it's a bigger problem when it comes to servers. Ksplice is a technology that allows Linux kernel patches to be applied without actually restarting the kernel.
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2006-01-04
OK, in theory you do serialize and deserialize everything, but in the real world it can be in some cases so complex that doing it in a bug free manner is not worth the effort.
That is why I wrote significantly.