[CentOS] Livepatch: Linux kernel updates without rebooting

Thu Oct 10 01:39:48 UTC 2019
Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:33 AM John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 11:27 AM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core). Does CentOS Linux
> kernel
> > 3.10.0-1062.1.1.el7.x86_64 support kernel updates without rebooting (Live
> > Patching)?
> >
> > I look forward to hearing from you and thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> this was just discussed in length on this list a few days ago.   See the
> thread starting here,
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-October/173703.html
>
> the short answer is, no.  and even the paid distributions that do support
> live patching, its pretty iffy.
>

Thanks John for the reply and much appreciated.