Marc,
> Its rare that we have more downtime then a reboot of the server, and we're
> taking steps to reduce the odd times that it is longer ... the nice thing
> is that the "big fix" for fsck that was made to FreeBSD a couple of months
> ago has, to date, resulted in no more then 60min downtimes, and that is
> time spent doing the fsck itself and then its back up again ...
Um, no offense, but we've had 12hr+ downtimes at least 3 times in the past 2
years -- one of them 3 days. I think we need to plan for such downtimes to
happen again.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco