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Browse All TopicsThis morning I was unable to log into a server through the network, and things weren't any better on the console; the whole machine appeared to be quite unresponsive (even though there seemed to be some traffic on the network). Finally I decided to reboot the machine "the hard way", switching power off without running the system down since I had no way of doing that. The server came back online normally, but was a bit slower than usually. I noticed that it was resyncing the (software) RAID5 array. After it finished the resync operation, everything "seems" to be normal again.
However, I'm a bit worried on the following things:
1) I know RAID5 is supposed to protect me from device failure, not power failure. Could the resync have somehow corrupted the data on the harddrive?
2) Should I manually do fsck on md0-device even though it appears that the system already did that during the bootup (see attached file)
3) Is there something else I should consider at this point in order to ensure that the data on the server is "as it should be"?
And finally, perhaps a bit off the topic, but hopefully someone could point to a direction where I should start looking for info on why the server became unresponsive in the first place?
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by: rindiPosted on 2008-09-05 at 01:00:27ID: 22396189
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