Re: [Lmuse-developer] More sync tests: Best RTC resolution for sync 8192 ? No - try 1024 instead.

[Geoff B. <ge...@la...>]

> That's terrible. The whole array? What happened? Overheat? Power surge?
 i'm the luckiest bastard alive. get this: i was next door helpng a mate fix 
his pc. i was gone 2-3 hours. when i got back the room smelt of board 
flux/resin and the top of the pc was quite warm. i felt behind the machine and 
discovered virtually no exhaust. put machine on its' side i discovered the 
cooling fan had 'thrown' a blade! it had poled and was still. X was running 
but all the disk activity was down. upon a reboot only 2 of the disks came up. 
i re-added the third using mdadm during which the process failed at about 20%. 
the array is now totally unrecoverable.

i think the PS must have burst some serious voltage out at some stage during 
the 'meltdown' and corrupted the second and third disks. when the third was 
re-added both 2 & 3 were found to be corrupt and no more raid 5.

a real warning to anyone using any kind of volatile data storage (all of us!) 

back up often.

do it for your children.

(sob)

g.