On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis@gmail.com wrote:
Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless. You'd be better off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't need to worry about any big changes that might come with not updating for almost 2 years. If you updated now and something broke, you wouldn't know what did it. If you keep up incrementally, you can catch the small things as they come. You also don't have a "delicate flower" that you need to worry if it won't come up after the next reboot. That's not a good situation to be in.
Except, in this case, you could probably go forever without updating. CentOS/Asterisk is just the switch's embedded OS as used here. I've maintained many Nortel switches (based on Wind River UNIX) which weren't patched for years -- no need to update the OS unless there was a specific problem or a necessary new feature. But I do think Rob wants to update this system. The problem is, unlike computer networks, people are very intolerant of phone downtime.