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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Frederic Barrat, Cugnaux, FR;
Philippe Bergheaud, Colmar, FR;
Luke M. Browning, Austin, TX (US);
Laurent Dufour, Plaisance du Touch, FR;
Khalid Filali-Adib, Austin, TX (US);
Christophe Lombard, Saint Paul de Vence, FR;
John M. McConaughy, Austin, TX (US);
Guy Menanteau, Cagnes sur mer, FR;
Stephen B. Peckham, Austin, TX (US);
David W. Sheffield, Austin, TX (US);
Donald R. Stence, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Sungjin Yook, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for performing a live update of an operating system. The mechanisms receive an update to an operating system and clone a root volume group associated with an operating system instance executing in a first logical partition of the data processing system to generate a cloned root volume group. The mechanisms apply the update to the cloned root volume group to generate an updated and cloned root volume group and boot a second logical partition of the data processing system using the updated and cloned root volume group. Moreover, the mechanisms migrate application instances and application data to the second logical partition.