Forensic evidence, eh?  From watching far too many CSI, House, etc. episodes, I 
expect that the server died of exanguination, and also showing evidence of a 
fractured hyoid bone and petechial hemorrhaging also died from strangulation.
You'd think the writers could find some new med-tech diagnoses.  😷
Mike Walter

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--------</div><div>From: Mark Post <[email protected]> </div><div>Date: 10/3/16  
3:36 PM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: [email protected] </div><div>Subject: 
Re: Linux system booted with old copy? </div><div>
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>>> On 10/3/2016 at 10:05 AM, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently we had a scheduled SHUTDOWN REIPL of a z/VM LPAR. After one of my
> Linux systems came back it was running with a copy of the OS and data that
> was 12 days old! (I saw the 12 day 'hole' in /var/log/messages). I have
> *never* seen this happen on zLinux nor Lintel.
>
> It was a SLES 12 SP1 system with a btrfs root file system.  btrfs is the
> only difference I can think of.  The z/VM and storage guys insist there
> were no snapshot copies around.

The only thing I can think of is that the system was (somehow) booted from a 
snapper snapshot.  I would have expected things to be in read-only mode, 
however.

> Has anyone seen this or have a possible explanation?  I cloned over it and
> restored my data in order to get the system usable, so I don't have access
> to the original system.

Next time, if it ever happens again, you might want to preserve the system 
state and use other DASD for cloning a replacement.  Destroying the forensic 
evidence is self-defeating in the long run. :)


Mark Post

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