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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:55:49
Message-Id: 1e27eb7e-f2a0-4e6e-bcf9-8962876aaab1@email.android.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3? by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 >On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote:
4 >> On 2013-04-24 6:27 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> Here's my pair of MTAs:
6 >>>
7 >>> $ uptime
8 >>> 12:24PM up 1295 days, 13:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.20,
9 >0.31
10 >>>
11 >>> $ uptime
12 >>> 12:24PM up 1925 days, 20:30, 4 users, load averages: 0.90, 0.75,
13 >0.84
14 >>>
15 >>> Those two just keep on accepting and dealing with mail, they do that
16 >a
17 >>> million times a day and according to uptime have been doing it for
18 >10
19 >>> years.
20 >>
21 >> ? Looks like 3.5 years and 5.2 years, respectively...
22 >>
23 >> You seriously haven't upgraded your kernel on those machines for
24 >3.5/5.2
25 >> years??
26 >>
27 >
28 >Yes, something like that.
29 >
30 >Politics get involved. But please let's not go there - the pain is too
31 >much to bear :-)
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 >--
36 >Alan McKinnon
37 >alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
38
39 Alan.
40
41 I wouldn't want to be present when those do get shut down. I wonder if the disks would spin back up as the bearings might have deteriorated by now...
42
43 --
44 Joost
45 --
46 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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