[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-06-09 02:12:
> On 2015-06-09 00:02:31 +0000, David Froble said:
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>> But really, what is the demand for unloading drivers?
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> Right now, zero.  Zilch.   Because the capability does not exist, because
> there is no call for it, because it's hard, because nobody sees the value
> of it, any number of other reasons.
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>> Someone developing drivers would benefit greatly from such.
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> Why unloading and reloading drivers and execlets?  That'd be for online
> software updates, among other uses.
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>> Someone running a production system would most likely never be doing that.
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> Some will not.  Some — those who need the update — would be more
> interested, particularly if they do not have to shut down production.
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For the end-users it doesn't matter much if you shut down the
production to do a terminal driver or disk driver switch. Or if
you actualy did a full reboot. Might take a different amount of
time but there will be a break anyway.

Or do you see a replacement of the terminal driver where not
all TNA devices also are removed? Or a replacement of the
disk drivers that is done transparently while there are
ongoing disk I/O's ?



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