Re: Nasty suprise with uptime

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:33:57 +0000 (GMT)


> > If so, approximtely when did that get fixed?
> >
> > (I'm thinking back to an as yet unexplained crash of a 2.0.38 system at
> > ~496days uptime :-( )
> >
> AFAIK, the system didn't crash, but the uptime counter went down to zero.

Some drivers used to get handling the wrap wrong and then break. Also in
the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25 of
each 50 days
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