[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

[David Brodbeck]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
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>> Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10
>> system that wouldn't play with live upgrade.
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> I've had a couple instances where Linux systems wouldn't boot after kernel
> updates.  Generally these have been software, not hardware issues -- some
> versions of the kernel changed how disks were identified.  It's enough that
> I never apply kernel patches in a situation where it would be difficult to
> travel to the site (unless I have good IPMI console support.)
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Oh yeah -- another reason is I've run into many situations where
OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana requires a full power cycle to reboot -- at least
one of my machines hangs if I try to do a soft reboot in OI.

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David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington