[WBEL-users] Another filesystem failure
Benjamin Smith
lists at benjamindsmith.com
Fri Jul 8 03:13:18 CDT 2005
I don't know to what can be attributed your instabilities. I maintain some
20-30 Linux servers spread all over the Western United States. I have
*never* experienced filesystem corruption. HD hardware crashes, yes. Memory
problems (instable systems) yes. A couple of security compromises, yes.
And while some servers are lightly loaded, another serves tens of thousands of
email addresses, over 250,000 emails per day, with almost 4 years of perfect
uptime, (only planned downtime for security updates) while yet another serves
over 5 million unique website visits per month (when things are hohum) for
about the same amount of time.
But never, ever, have I experienced what you mention below. As far as
equipment, I tend to buy from gtweb.net or build my own. I usually use
ValueRAM, and spend money on high quality cooling fans, but I don't
discriminate for HDD much at all.
I guess it's most likely that there's a problem with the SATA driver(!?!?)
-Ben
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 00:10, Francies Moore wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> First of all apologies for not thanking those who replied to my posting
> re Gig ethernet cards. We have not got any further with that, so I have
> nothing to report.
>
> But ... yesterday my main White Box/Lotus Domino server failed at 5.02
> am. It took an engineer all day to retrieve Domino and get it back
> running. It has two Maxstor SATA drives and he has managed to get the
> whole system back up on the drive that still works.. Unfortunately I do
> not have copies of the error messages at home here, but basically it was
> coming up with Sense Key errors, Drive_Seek errors and ext3 fs errors.
> Maxstor diagnostics when run said the disk (the disk with all the
> data!!!) was bad. However, later on Maxstor helpline said that it was
> an OS/fs error and the disk needed to be low level formatted and then
> would be OK.
>
> For myself I never trust a disk again but always replace it. However, I
> do not have the final say in this instance.
>
> I have been here before with my other IDE disk based WBEL3.0 server -
> previous postings to this list in April/May. Once the bad disks were
> low level formatted off-site I am told they are now still running, but I
> replaced them and rebuilt the server from scratch..
>
> Is there an issue with WBEL 3.0 Respin 1 and Maxstor disks or SATA?
> This Domino/WBEL system ran for a year but died about 6 weeks ago with
> bad RAM, which was replaced and the server brought back up.
>
> I have turned off updates as I do not want to upset Domino, so this
> cannot be the issue. This machine is on a UPS so mains power is not the
> issue.
>
> I am seriously concerned as I thought Linux was stable - the issues I
> have had with my home machines have been hardware (dead HD, bad RAM)
> except one time when a dual boot Win98/WBEL system found ext2 fs errors
> on startup, fixed by fsck, but we are beginning to wonder if we should
> go back to Windows on our production servers. I don't want to!!
>
> Any suggestion as to what is happening to my servers would be appreciated.
>
> PS I have been running RedHat 8 for over 2 years with Samba and Apache
> on a box built out of bits and it just runs and runs....
>
> Thanks.
>
> Francies Moore
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