Hard Disk Maintenance

2006-09-22 15:42:30 | johann | #

I found that one of the disks in the server's RAID-1 had read errors in the weekly selftest, so I decided to rebuild the RAID from the other drive. During the rebuild, I noticed that most screenshots were blank because the server was too slow when redirecting browsers. So I put one hour worth of screenshots back into the request queue. Then I shut down the web server until the RAID was finished rebuilding.

The result was roughly two hours of interrupted or slow service between 7am to 9am UTC today. Thanks for your patience. Some technical notes can be found in ShotServerRaid.