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What is the longest time for a Linux workstation without having to reinstall?

Posted 11-04-2009 at 12:07 AM by allanf

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Originally Posted by SaintDanBert View Post
File systems and various configuration files use linked lists or some other structured data. After many cycles of add-change-delete, these data structures often require "garbage collection" and other reorganization. This processing is difficult to program correctly for all of the possible conditions and ways that things can go wrong.
As a result, it is frequently easier to read data from one file and write a new fresh well organized file.

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