21st
February
2006
Feels like starting over
Tuesday is “Patch-it day” in our office; it used to be a weekly feature, but a decision was made that monthly better fit our needs. So be it. However, there are often warnings and warning signs that slip by in these easier times. We have a number of servers that do experimental duty; the oldest in the farm is currently dedicated to some PHP/MySQL work. The machine also doesn’t have any strategy for recovery after something stops dead. Today, the machine had a lovely warning that a write failure had occurred; then the data drive was gone.
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