On Wednesday 26 April 2017 10:57:23 am Sherrod Munday wrote: > Without speaking for Rob, and not knowing his specific situation, my guess is > that it's called preventative maintenance: replace the system hardware before > it fails. Those spinning disks don't last forever, after all, and neither do > power supplies.
My reference was entirely to replacing init with systemd, and upstart, and the variety of other software replacements for no good reason other than we can. I saw no advantage to upstart. I see no advantage to systemd. I see MANY advantages to init ! I'm told that systemd allows the system to start a few seconds faster. On machines other than my laptop which gets restarted every two weeks or so, on machines that get booted once in 5 years, a few seconds of saved boot time is an advantage because ... ??? As to hardware, we agree. My Spam-O-Matic prototype has been running for 14 years, as designed, self-training and maintenance free with exception of a minute or three around 6 years ago to replace the hard disks. ( the design goal 80% with zero false-positive was exceeded in the first minute, and it's historically still better than 99.87% with a half-dozen or so false positives in that whole 14 years ) (( unintended, it also catches 75% or better of malware )) That's a l-o-n-g time, but it does pre-date the chinese capacitor issue. Since caps are now made in China, 5 years is asking a lot on a motherboard. The chinese still make cheap junk. Unfortunately, people only want to pay for cheap junk, so I don't even know where one can buy quality caps, at any price let alone competitive. So, Spam-O was replaced this past weekend with one of those Image Stream boxes we talked about, with 40GB RAID-1 disks, so it'll need attention in 5 or 6 years as well. The other Image Stream replaced my Dell Poweredge server a couple months ago, also with a 2G RAM upgrade and in this one, 2T RAID-1. Next, I'll strap a boat battery across the 12V supply, and I expect both Spam-O and the house server will run maintenance free for 5 years or better. The up-side is that I won't have to power down to replace the battery anymore ! Come to think of it, SATA is hot-swapable, so neither of them may *need* powered down for anything within the balance of my lifetime ! I did update the house server to Slackware 14 64 bit, but only because it was going down for replacement anyway. Spam-O however, I ultimately left at Slackware 9.1 and I see no reason whatever to update it, and a couple of very good reasons not to. ( though I did update the kernel to a 2.6.27 but only to handle the sata interface ) Were I in Rob's position, I suspect I'd be doing exactly what he is, for the same reasons, and griping about systemd as well. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com "... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." -- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter Preposterous Words _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
