On Sun, 2021-02-28 at 09:41 +0100, Syds Bearda wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, at 23:23, Olav Reinert wrote:
For your information: After applying the btrfs read-only property manually, as suggested, I just left the machine (a Raspberry Pi 3) running. It is still running just fine, after having been powered on non-stop for 6 months. By "just fine" I mean I can do SSH login to it, and nothing seems to be exploding - not disk usage, not the overlay hierarchy, etc.
One of the nice things of MicroOS and transactional-update is the automatic upgrades. Where the server reboots by itself and performs the upgrade. Which should be a few days a week. Having an uptime of 6 months makes me think something is not working right.
I didn't say anything about uptime, only that the machine has been powered on and running for 6 months.
A mutable OS like TW or Leap can be upgraded usually without a reboot. An immutable OS like MicroOS can only upgrade with a reboot, as the /root is read only.
In fact, uptime on this RasPi3 is rarely more than a few days because it is self-upgrading and rebooting regularly, as evidenced by /var/log/transactional-update.log, among other things. Regards, Olav