[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Mon Apr 8 13:12:56 UTC 2013


On 4/8/2013 4:16 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
> Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>> Patching is extremely safe.  But let's look at the flip side.  
>> Suppose you encounter the rare situation where patching *does* cause 
>> a problem.  It's been known to happen; heck, it's been known to 
>> happen *by* *me*.  You have to ask yourself, which is the larger 
>> risk?  Applying the patches, or not applying the patches?
>
> Extremely safe on anything OpenSolaris based!
>
> Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 
> system that wouldn't play with live upgrade.
>

I have a Solaris 10 box who's LU is so completely fubar I can't do a 
thing with it. LU had some bugs there for a while. I think I found them 
all. :)

-brian



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