[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 11 May 2011 18:46:35 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>> For most, the disk has to keep running throughout.  For a diskless
>> client off an NFS server, even that isn't needed.  (Diskless NFS
>> clients survive a server reboot.)
> Well, if you were considering possible disk failure, how about I build a
> system with just a ramdisk?  :-)  No moving parts beyond electrons.

Use a CF card...!

> And talk about being old. Unless they have fixed it (which I doubt as I
> never saw anyone in the linux crowd admit it was done wrong) Linux
> versions of NFS are, in some way, stateful and a reboot of the server
> requires a reboot of all the clients.  One of the reasons I have
> resisted moving anything here to Linux as we rely very heavily on NFS
> and I can't be rebooting all our clients if I have to take the
> fileserver down for any reason.

Don't seem to see that on FreeBSD...clients occasionally need a nudge, 
that's all.

>> I have seen ones where the TOD clock stopped while it was suspended.

NTP ought to fix that...!

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