[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:25 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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.

Yup. I get arrogant students going on about how wonderful Linux is, and I 
say it's just a jumped up UNIX wannabe!


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