On 19/10/10 21:25, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Are you running smartmontools? Might be worth doing so. Hugo has given a
> deeper analysis; my gut feel is that the drive is on its way out.
>
>> And the server is a production machine that the client can't live
>> without, so I can't run tests very easily.
>
> If they can't live without it, I suggest you switch over to the hot-spare
> backup (and if they don't have one then not only CAN they live without
> this server, but they might well have to). Seriously, for critical
> servers, an HA clustered pair (Heartbeat, DRBD, etc) is a sensible and not
> that expensive solution.
>
That's a good thought. It's either that or RAID (which of course it
should have had in the first place...)
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
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