On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I don't think uptime challenges are useful. It makes people want to > do something that they shouldn't want to do. When kernel security > upgrades come along just install them and reboot. Human made > "machines" of all types have been running for a very long time and it > just isn't productive or useful to try to go for a record.
The central realization is that machines provide services, and it is the service that needs to be continuously available, not the machine. Load balancers, fail-over, and similar schemes are much more likely to bring long-term success than a carefully tended kspliced single machine, even though the latter is impressive in its own right. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130418170439.gb27...@randomstring.org
