[auton-users] bigpapa connection

[nichol]

Not when 2 disks go!

*Bob, can you elaborate?  If it was RAID, why was anything lost?  Half of the 
*point is to ensure redundancy.
*
*-Jacob
*
*On Monday 24 February 2003 15:32, nichol wrote:
*> Dont want to scare people, but we have had two RAID array failures
*> up here in Physics.
*>
*> * > I was running with some of Paul's data in
*> * >
*> * >
*> /.automount/lofty/BigPapa/home/komarek/h/pfizer/icml2003_experiments/athlon
*>mp/reuters/mydata/ * >
*> * > and all was fine.
*> * >
*> * > But then it claimed file not found for a few minutes
*> * >
*> * > and now its back again.
*> * >
*> * > Is there something like the equivalent of klogging that I should be
*> * > doing? Thanks,
*> * >
*> * >   Andrew
*> *
*> *I got the same thing today. Could be that the automounter unmounted the
*> *filesystem after some idle time, and couldn't re-mount it quickly enough
*> *when you accessed it again. The re-mount speed is most likely a function
*> of *the load on the local network - the fileserver isn't at all loaded. *
*> *Pat: can we change the automounter defaults so it:
*> *
*> * 1. waits longer before unmounting an idle connection
*> *
*> * 2. tries harder and more times to mount a filesystem before deciding it's
*> *dead
*> *
*> *?
*> *
*> *
*> *As a workaround, try typing "ls /mnt/BigPapa" - for me it convinced the
*> *automounter to mount the filesystem again, and then the application was
*> *happy.
*> *
*

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