Since you mentioned Dell, one thing to check would be PERC and hard drive firmware levels. There have been a number of updates to both over the past few years concerning silent data corruption under a variety of conditions.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:07:24PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote: > Thanks for finding that but, as you said, it doesn't help much. The disk > filled to 100% due to DB2 taking dumps but that doesn't tell me what caused > the dumping in the first place. > > We are still running Dell full diagnostics (started yesterday afternoon and > was at 78% as of 2pm EDT). My OS guy is watching the pot boil and will > report back once it finishes. Then it that is clean, he will wipe it and > reinstall RH 6, since it doesn't look like what is left (/TSMDB, /TSMLOG, > /TSMARCHLOG) will be of any value without the root filesystem. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
