From: Guido Winkelmann <guido@ambient-entertainment.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Files not touched in weeks got truncated after a crash
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:25:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1858382.C5yFZBoLx8@r008> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384361504.4299.132.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:51:44 Roger Willcocks wrote:
>Syncing won't protect you from hardware failures.
Obviously not, but it might - should, I would argue - lessen the impact of
one.
>Without more details about what happened to the external RAID and what
>you did to recover it's impossible to answer your question.
Well, if I understood the admin correctly, the backplane in the RAID in
question died, probably from a short-circuit on the board. (But I think that
latter part was just speculation.) He removed the harddisks from that
enclosure, put them into another one of the same make and model, mirrored over
the configuration from the broken to the working one and reattached it to the
server. The server was shut down in the mean time.
Guido
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-14 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 16:36 Files not touched in weeks got truncated after a crash Guido Winkelmann
2013-11-13 16:51 ` Roger Willcocks
2013-11-14 10:25 ` Guido Winkelmann [this message]
2013-11-13 20:39 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-11-13 21:43 ` Stefan Ring
2013-11-14 10:11 ` Guido Winkelmann
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