From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010329235720.A11045@redhat.com> References: <20010329212736.A9776@redhat.com> <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00522.html On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:32:36PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote: >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:27:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>The end result was that when I wrote to /dev/hda4, I was also randomly >>writing to /dev/hda3. > >Ouch! It wasn't just a partition problem where they were overlapping or >something like that? I've seen that happen before, where you write to >one of the partitions and you're scrubbing all over one of the other >ones in the process. Nah. I'm pretty sure it was a linux problem. I had the same problem here (at home). I spent a week staring at partition tables and then one day I decided to upgrade the OS. The problem just disappeared. Both Jeff and I looked at the partition table and it looked fine, AFAWCT. >If that 9GB SCSI drive is still around, the vast majority of the >web site is static. 99% of all the web pages on the site are >mailing lists, and only a small fraction of those web archives have >changed since the drive swap (i.e. the current month/quarter/year >archives). All of the other archives could be copied back from the >SCSI drive on top of whatever's there now. Yep. That's what we plan on doing. I think the old SCSI disk is more recent than any of the tape backups of that disk. Btw, I've just learned that /dev/hda1 was affected too. Sigh. cgf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20010329235720.A11045@redhat.com> References: <20010329212736.A9776@redhat.com> <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00522.html Message-ID: <20010329205600.asHKwnEDQFiyWSOjfIy_tiHWzqrcXQclakaGCGmc3G4@z> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:32:36PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote: >On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:27:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>The end result was that when I wrote to /dev/hda4, I was also randomly >>writing to /dev/hda3. > >Ouch! It wasn't just a partition problem where they were overlapping or >something like that? I've seen that happen before, where you write to >one of the partitions and you're scrubbing all over one of the other >ones in the process. Nah. I'm pretty sure it was a linux problem. I had the same problem here (at home). I spent a week staring at partition tables and then one day I decided to upgrade the OS. The problem just disappeared. Both Jeff and I looked at the partition table and it looked fine, AFAWCT. >If that 9GB SCSI drive is still around, the vast majority of the >web site is static. 99% of all the web pages on the site are >mailing lists, and only a small fraction of those web archives have >changed since the drive swap (i.e. the current month/quarter/year >archives). All of the other archives could be copied back from the >SCSI drive on top of whatever's there now. Yep. That's what we plan on doing. I think the old SCSI disk is more recent than any of the tape backups of that disk. Btw, I've just learned that /dev/hda1 was affected too. Sigh. cgf