Re: database corruption

Scott Marlowe wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:16, Michael Guerin wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>    We recently switch over from Solaris to Linux and we've been 
>>experiencing a couple database corruptions problems.  We're using the 
>>2.6 kernel and a XFS file system, in case there are any known problems 
>>with this setup. 
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>>It's my understanding that these errors are typically b/c of hardware 
>>problems, so we're in the process of checking the disk.  However, are 
>>there other things that I should look to find out what's going on?   The 
>>table that was corrupted earlier this week was dropped and  recreated, 
>>but it was corrupted again sometime last night.  The table is pretty 
>>active, about 10GB are inserted and deleted every day.
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>Be sure and test your memory too.  And if you have a hardware RAID
>controller, sometimes they can be slightly broken and cause random
>corruption.
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Switching from XFS to Reiserfs seems to have resolved our problems.