A couple questions that I'm having a hard time finding answers for on google.
First, a while back someone on this list mentioned setting up their server to allow login much earlier in the boot process. I can't find the post in the archives, and I must be googling the wrong terms, because I can't find anything about how to do it online. Would someone care to point me in the right direction? Secondly, I have a server that's having major issues with I/O to the root partition. Twice in the last 12 hours, it's switched the root FS to read-only, and then kernel panicked. The errors that seem to precede the problem are journal I/O errors. The partition is on a raid 5 array that is in good health, and I've used smartctl to check the health of the underlying drives, which all seem to be fine. My next suspect is the 3ware card, and I'd like to flash the firmware on it, but I can't find any documentation about whether it's safe to do that on a running configuration. Does anyone have any further insight to shed on this, either about how to troubleshoot the 3ware, or other items I should check to isolate the problem more accurately? Thank you for your time. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
