[CentOS] Looking for Insights
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 19:06:08 UTC 2007
Shawn Everett wrote:
>
> No errors about md2 or md3 were reported in dmesg or /var/log/messages
Anything about the underlying physical devices? Do you have diagnostic
tools for the hardware raid underneath the software array?
> Strangely, all files added via Samba after Monday are gone. This is limited
> to only one device: md3. Everything else is fine.
>
> Checking the two drives/partitions that make up md3 show none of the
> missing files.
>
> Any brilliant thoughts as to where those files might have gone would be
> appreciated. The files lost are not critical so there are no major
> problems but it's a puzzle I can't quite figure out.
It sounds like the hardware device where this was writing was not
responding, but I'd expect some sort of timeout and log message - unless
/var/log is on this device too.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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