From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] URgent - please Help - our main system is corrupt, no one can wor k! Message-ID: <20020610160021.GI20388@turbolinux.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jun 10 11:02:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Jun 10, 2002 09:50 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, at 3:16pm, Gesine Sch?fer-Reimers wrote: > > this is the second mail. I tried it this noon but got no answer so far, > > but our whole production is down and I really have to fix it. > > > > We use SUSE 7.3 with LVM... > > Call SuSE and pay for technical support. Or call Sistina and pay for > technical support. Or find a local consultant who knows their stuff, and > pay them for help. You get the idea. You need an expert, in a hurry, and > you are going to have to pay for that. > > If you have a mission critical operation that is non-functional, you need > more intense support than a mailing list staffed with volunteers can give > you. More pointedly, the symptoms you describe indicate a fairly low-level > and general system failure, which will require direct, one-on-one > trouble-shooting -- not something you can get here. > > I do not speak for SuSE, Sistina, the LVM maintainers, my company, or > anyone else but myself. However, as a professional system administrator, I > know when to pay for help, and that is where you are right now. And it sounds like they don't have a backup of their "production" system. Sounds like some sysadmin will be out of a job soon. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/