Scott Marlowe wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:16, Michael Guerin wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>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.