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by appendix-rock
621 days ago
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Yep. Not rebooting for a decade is in most cases an irresponsible ‘advanced rookie’ move. I’m more than aware of the greybeard-era uptime fetishism. I’ve more than dabbled in it. I’ve typed /exec uptime into my IRC client more times than I dare admit. But come on… All that’s been said about security updates etc aside (some of which can be mitigated with that fancy in-place kernel update stuff), If something hasn’t rebooted in 10 years I’m going to be a bit nervous about what happens when it does reboot. If it’s in an uptime fetishist environment, chances are that it’ll be rebooted at a time that’s…inconvenient to say the least. Are you SURE that nothing has changed in that time? Some people are! Moreso than others at least. But that’s extra work, and my bet is most places with these high-uptime machines aren’t putting that work In, or think they are and are doing it poorly. |
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