[cobalt-users] Do RAID failures just go away????

[Josh Kuperman <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last night I ssh'ed in and was checking my email. I couldn't help but
notice large amounts of it were missing along with a slew of symlinks
and the main web page address returned an empty directory in a
browser.  I'm on a RaQ XTR using RAID 0; the was a notice mailed out
to admin, that one of the disk drives had failed. All the directories
when I did "ls ../../" weren't there (which of course couldn't be
correct since I was in my home directory when I logged in.)

There were some other oddities. My system load was at 2.00 as opposed
to a usual 0.15 and there were two runaway processes, instances of
VIM, owned by a user who hadn't logged in for a while. They were using
48% of cpu each according to top.I killed those.

Now when I get in today I see that it all looks OK -- except for some
nightly log rotations, vanishing squid log files, and wherever mutt
stuck my mail. (I'm assuming a temporary folder someplace). I assume
I'll find more problems once I know where to look.

So I have the following questions:

1. Is the disk bad or good - how do I tell?
2. Was the runaway VIM a sign of hacking, bad coding, or irrelevant?
3. Is there anyway to tell what would have been damaged by temporarily
having one disk out of the loop?

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Josh Kuperman                       
josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx