On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:39:08 +0100, Willy Tarreau said:Been there, done that. We got a number of boxes that sit there for ages between reboots and even longer between upgrades. Deploying Solaris 10 was like a 2-year process for some of our boxes (when the boxes are running the Oracle databases that house the enterprise business systems, and your organizational budget is pushing the $1B/year mark, everybody gets *really* cautious to avoid a CLM while upgrading... ;) And we may actually manage to finally kill off our last AIX 4.3.3 box this quarter (4.3.3 was released all the way back in Sep 1999, and EOL'ed back in 2004 - don't ask. :) Of course, the difference is that we *expect* that there's a good chance that if we try to subject that sort of box to 3 year's worth of updates, there's a good chance we'll discover that some driver has been EOL'ed or otherwise problematic on now-ancient hardware... (And yes, there's a *lot* of risk-management going on centered around "What if we have to patch Server23 for a critical kernel security issue?". Of course, if it was actually *feasible* to blindly upgrade-and-reboot twice a month, the job could be done by a much less expensive patch monkey, so it's good job security ;)
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