RE: Thats all folks!

Joe said:
Both happen on Linux machines.  On Unix machines I have seen various
databases (in order, Informix, Sybase and least frequently Oracle) go
casters up and require lengthy rebuilds.  I think it depends to a large
extent on system load, and (one would hope) it happens less frequently now.
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Yep.  Remember back in the day when eBay would be down for hours/days on
end?  I believe they were (are still?) on Sun?  The error messages always
stated "corrupted databases, needed to rebuild."  This was back in late
99/early 2000.

I've seen DBXREF's get smoked ONCE in my 24+ system-years of experience (8
boxes/3+years) on the iSeries.  MAYBE 10 damaged objects.  MAYBE.  Never had
to restore from tape either, just do what the error message said (open the
file/display it/retry operation) and voila! fixed.

Now 8.58Gb 10k RPM drives?  I kid you not - 30+ failures.  =)  Thank the
Lord in heaven for RAID.

jch