[LEAPSECS] Longer horizon

[Warner Losh]

On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:12 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:


> On 9 Jul 2012 at 14:31, Warner Losh wrote:

> 

>> First, the current "right" database can't be updated in place:

>> you have to restart.

> 

> M$ Windows people are used to constantly having to restart their 

> systems at the most trivial updates... *Nix folks are spoiled!


I think that you've got it backwards.  M$ developers have been spoiled that the don't have to tackle the hard problem of not forcing a restart.  Forced restarts kill your '9's of uptime.

Warner