On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.
Agreed, but the cause of the 12hr+ downtimes were due to fsck taking as
long as it did, and that has been fixed. Its the '3 days downtime' that
we need to avoid in the future, where its not a hardware, but a provider,
issue ...
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