One of the big oops moments many years ago was more a lack of knowledge than an oops at the keyboard.
I had an AIX file server with 4 disk contollers in it. A couple of disks on each controller. The typical / /usr ... stuff was on disk 0 controller 0 along with some basic swap space. disk 0 on controller 1 had additional swap space plus some file system stuff. disk 0 on controllers 2 and 3 were made into 1 big filesystem disk 1 on controllers 2 and 3 were made into another filesystem All other disks on the system had additional filesystems on them. System crashed one day. Found out later the problem was that contoller 1 developed a problem and disappered. I rebooted the system and it does the normal filesystem checks. Since the system had lots of disk and it crashed, it was going to take some time for the fsck to complete. Off to the fridge to grab a cold dew. Being used to BSD4.2 and SunOS systems, if the system can't fsck everything it stops. It should be safe til I get back.... As Gomer Pyle would say, "Suprise! Suprise! Suprise!". Not so with the AIX of the day. The system just skips the the failed disks and goes into multi user mode. The result is the system now takes that nice big partition on the "new" controller 1 as swap and therefore poof goes the filesystem. Thank the automated tape monkeys that completed the backups of the system just a couple hours before the controller went byebye. This got reported to IBM as a bug as well and fixed in a later release of the system. -_Gene _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
