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I think that command is showing you the total number of hours the system has been running, not the uptime - so it could have been rebooted for patching

[Edit] - Slightly pedantically, it's the number of hours one of the disks has been powered up



That's right. We've got 4 bog standard 750G WD Caviar Blues in a software RAID array in that machine, all powered up for 11+ years, none of which appear to have caught any errors during that time. Pretty amazing.

The OS has been updated and the box rebooted for kernel updates a number of times over the years.


Yes I suspected as much. So really this is bragging about continuous power for 11 years. Which is impressive.

I never saw anyone measure uptime in that way before. But it make a lot more sense than measuring the OS uptime.




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