[CentOS] reboot long uptimes?

Tue Feb 13 12:31:48 UTC 2007
Theo Band <theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com>

Tom Brown wrote:
>
> gotcha though: be careful to tune the fs to not automagically fsck the 
> filesystem on boot. When you have a large fileserver or mail store 
> that even a scheduled reboot can cause hours of downtime as it runs 
> its 'required' fsck!
There must be a reason to do fsck every now and then (once a year)? 
Could it be that some cleanup is needed even for ext3? I also have a 
server up for more than half a year and I was wondering whether to 
reboot it just out of precautions. I refrain from kernel updates for 
internal machines, it just gives a lot of work due to driver 
re-compilation. (Don't fix it if it ain't broken :-)

Theo