Well, it depends on model how you manage servers. Cattle vs Pets. And of course true for takeover, thats nightmare whatever it have uptime or not ;) I have jus

Well, it depends on model how you manage servers. Cattle vs Pets. And of course true for takeover, thats nightmare whatever it have uptime or not ;) I have just several servers here and there so their are all pets to me. Im 99% sure, server would boot cleanly. The remaining 1% is HW failure, with, can happen. Example: I have a software FW running on some older HW here w/ 2 disks in Soft RAID 1. I had to power it down for 2 days due to electric maintenance in building. What a suprise was booting it. One disk failed right away making creepy noise. Other was ok, but server was booting long, so I hooked up monitor to check things out. Well, second disk was NOT in good condition either, it started to spit I/O errors here and there. Anyway. I managed to boot FW to working state, but immediatly got spare HW and started preparing for replacement. Now it runs 3 disks in Soft RAID 1 :)