On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Brian Ashe wrote: > BH> Is kind of interesting too. There are some free bsd machines that > BH> according to them have been up for 1100+ days. Is that possible? Does > BH> free bsd allow updates to the os without rebooting or have they simply > BH> not updated the box in almost 4 years? > > The only reason to reboot a *nix is to replace the kernel. I don't keep up > with those enough to know if there have been kernel updates, but there is a > reason that Unix has been hailed as so stable.
Yes, FreeBSD's kernel has been updated many times. (But, of course, in these examples, they weren't.) > Once you get a good stable Linux kernel you could accomplish the same That is why you don't see any Linux systems with the high averages. My highest was 497 days; then the Linux 2.0.36 kernel hit its 497 day "jiffy" bug and the ext2 filesystem went down uncleanly. It is unclear if that particular bug has been fixed -- I know it has been discussed a lot. Jeremy C. Reed echo 'G014AE824B0-07CC?/JJFFFI?D64CB>D=3C427=>;>6HI2><J' | tr /-_ :\ Sc-y./ | sed swxw`uname`w _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
