[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[ChrisQ]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 
> 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.

Not sure if that's true or not, or is it something that was introduced
as a mount option on nfs V4 ?.

Still have the Solaris 10 server here, which talks well to Linux boxen,
as well as several pc's running NfsAxe nfs client...

Regards,

Chris


> 
> 
>>  
>>> On another note, with all the VMing of systems today I wonder what would
>>> happen if I built  a system started it running, took a snapshot, shut it
>>> down and then restarted it from the snapshot (note, not reboot, restart)
>>> 10 years later?  Would it report an uptime of 10 years?
>> I have seen ones where the TOD clock stopped while it was suspended.
>>
>> Then again, running BACKUP on a Win2K dual processor box reports
>> the time as twice the actual clock time.  (Presumably once for
>> each processor.)
> 
> No practical reason, but it might be interesting to see what Hyper-V
> does.
> 
> bill
>