[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <93066aF83tU7 at mid.individual.net>,
	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 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...!

Showing my age here.  We used to use ramdisks, but that isn't really
necessary any more. :-)

> 
>> 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.

Strictly a Liux problem.  It's what you get from NIH Syndrome carried
out by idiots.

bill

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