On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:16, Michael Guerin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We recently switch over from Solaris to Linux and we've been
> experiencing a couple database corruptions problems. We're using the
> 2.6 kernel and a XFS file system, in case there are any known problems
> with this setup.
>
> It's my understanding that these errors are typically b/c of hardware
> problems, so we're in the process of checking the disk. However, are
> there other things that I should look to find out what's going on? The
> table that was corrupted earlier this week was dropped and recreated,
> but it was corrupted again sometime last night. The table is pretty
> active, about 10GB are inserted and deleted every day.
Be sure and test your memory too. And if you have a hardware RAID
controller, sometimes they can be slightly broken and cause random
corruption.
