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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
Normally we don't go straight to the goat sacrifice, but this was a special case. Lost two of seven spindles in a raid 5 array. Rose would know what that means... and its very bad. You can lose one disk in a raid, but not two. Lose two and the whole volume is pretty much toast.
But the nice gentleman at Dell Powervault support and I talked about it, and decided... what the heck... lets force 'em back online and spin 'em up. It can't really get any worse.
Lo and behold... they spun up... the volume reappearred, and apparently without corrupting any data. Running an all-night consistency check on the data tonight.
[whew]
I'm sure that would be fascinating if you could translate it into English.
However, I am glad that it worked out. ;-)
I don't know if there *is* an english version of that.
It's sort like firing a shotgun at a chandelier, and luckily having all the pellets fly through without hitting anyting. It's not the sort of thing you want to count on working every time. :-)
Well, I'm from Appalachia. The goat sacrifice makes more sense to me.
That how we looked at it. :-)
Well... so you've decided to stay home in da morning?
<smile>And how are you this evening?
Howdy everyone...is the thread dead? or has everyone gone to sleep???
I'm still up, for a few more minutes! We had a double feature tonight, I Robot , which I enjoyed for it's sparkling repartee between Will Smith and 'Sunny', then Man on Fire, a truly violent movie about the bodyguard of a little girl who goes on a revenge rampage after she's kidnapped, to get the ones who killed her. It was extremely violent, but very satisfying, and even involves some redemption in the end.
The wind is HOWLING outside, and it looks like we've had about 8" of snow so far, but it's hard to tell because of the drifting because of the wind. SSQ said he'd heard they were going to be having hurricane force winds out on the Cape. A true Nor'easter. Gonna check weather.com one more time and hit the hay.
Night all!
JUST BEFORE 11 PM... WINDS GUSTED TO 57 MPH AT THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY AND THE ELEVATED PLATFORM OF THE BUZZARDS BAY CMAN STATION HAS REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 77 MPH..
Yep, them's hurricane strength winds. There's a blizzard warning in effect until 6pm Sunday night, and they're telling folks to NOT go outside because of the winds and drifting snow because of the possibility of losing your bearings and getting lost in the snow. That would be VEY bad.
Northwest RI is supposed to get almost 3' of snow. YOWSERS! We're only about 30 miles north of that!
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You have my shovel.
Someone ele took my shovel.
We're using it. Right at a foot-o-snow and blowing around like the dickens.
Looks like we didn't get much if any snow on top of the ice from yesterday afternoon. Sun's out, but it's cold. Doubt we'll see much melting.
Hi all.... feel like I've been out of touch... Haven't read or posted much all weekend. Got snow pictures?
Heh..... I'm awake...
ecurbh
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