Early morning
Got a page about one of our mission-critical servers being down this morning around 6:00…I jumped out of bed and headed into the office. Was here around 6:50 or so. After having been up for 425 days, the box up and threw a kernel panic. Doh! Cycled the power and waited…and waited…man it takes a long time to fsck through ~250 gigs. Anyway – the filesystem check came back okay, and the box is back up now, thankfully before people arrive at work to need this server’s services.
Is there a reason it’s not journaled? Or is it like NTFS where the journaling seems to not eliminate the need for a fsck?
Actually I misspoke…it *is* journalled (ext3) – but it had been past the 120-day threshold or whatever between fscks, and so it forced them on all the partitions.
Way to go Erik for saving the day. I’m glad you guys understand this kind of stuff.