On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> Drive /dev/sdb on abbot has begun its failure spiral. All of abbot's >> filesystems are on RAID-1 arrays, so there's no immediate danger of >> system failure. I realize that abbot is in the process of being >> replaced, but I've ordered a replacement drive anyway. > > The replacement drive is scheduled to arrive on Friday, so I plan to > power down abbot to swap drives sometime between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. > (PDT) this Saturday, September 7. > > Barring unforeseen problems, abbot should be offline for roughly 20 > to 30 minutes.
It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to remove the failed drive from abbot's case, which I'd never opened, but otherwise the drive swap went according to plan. Of course, when I rebooted abbot it insisted on fsck-ing its disk (not because of the drive swap but because it'd be too long since the last fsck) -- so abbot was offline for closer an hour than 30 minutes. Once online, reassembling the RAID-1 mirrors was quick and easy. The main mirror, for the / filesystem, is still resync-ing itself; I'm guessing the process won't be complete until mid-evening PDT. In the meantime, hackage and other abbot-based services are humming along just fine. Since the old drive was failing, I can't reliably zero it out, so I'll physically destroy it. -- Paul Heinlein Galois, Inc. Systems Administrator 421 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 300 [email protected] Portland, Oregon 97204 +1 503 626-6616 x140 http://corp.galois.com/ _______________________________________________ haskell-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure
