03-07-2018
Data Centre meets Vacuum Cleaner
Hi Folks,
I have just spent a couple of days resolving some problems at the remote DR data centre, sorting out the problems caused by the over zealous use of a Vacuum cleaner of all things.
We have a backup server a SUN V480R with a Storedge 3510 and expansion attached which suffered a significant unexplained failure, all tracked back to an ID selector being touched by the nozzle of said vacuum cleaner - it looks like things went as follows over a period of time.
When the array was installed the setup was disks 0-9 were setup as a 10way stripe with disks 10 and 11 as hot standby disks. Over a period of time, a disk in the expansion (disk 3) failed and the and the first available spare (disk 10) built from the surviving mirror.
At this point the situation that existed left us exposed in a way which wasn't really appreciated, in that the one of the arrays had both mirrors of one part of the stripe. That would be the part that had the exposed ID selector switch, the one that the Vacuum Cleaner nozzle could change causing the failure of one whole stripe and one slice of an other stripe. The result as you can imagine was somewhat unpredictable, which is exactly what the Sun manual for the array says.
To add insult to injury the contents of the 3510 array, was the Legato Networker Backup Catalogue from the 24 drive ATL - making the recovery somewhat awkward.
What's the point of the story - don't let some idiot into a data centre with a Vacuum Cleaner.
Regards
Gull04
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
arithmetic
ARITHMETIC(6) BSD Games Manual ARITHMETIC(6)
NAME
arithmetic -- quiz on simple arithmetic
SYNOPSIS
arithmetic [-o +-x/] [-r range]
DESCRIPTION
arithmetic asks you to solve problems in simple arithmetic. Each question must be answered correctly before going on to the next. After
every 20 problems, it prints the score so far and the time taken. You can quit at any time by typing the interrupt or end-of-file character.
The options are as follows:
-o By default, arithmetic asks questions on addition of numbers from 0 to 10, and corresponding subtraction. By supplying one or more
of the characters +-x/, you can ask for problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, respectively. If you give
one of these characters more than once, that kind of problem will be asked correspondingly more often.
-r If a range is supplied, arithmetic selects the numbers in its problems in the following way. For addition and multiplication, the
numbers to be added or multiplied are between 0 and range, inclusive. For subtraction and division, both the required result and the
number to divide by or subtract will be between 0 and range. (Of course, arithmetic will not ask you to divide by 0.) The default
range is 10.
When you get a problem wrong, arithmetic will remember the numbers involved, and will tend to select those numbers more often than others, in
problems of the same sort. Eventually it will forgive and forget.
arithmetic cannot be persuaded to tell you the right answer. You must work it out for yourself.
DIAGNOSTICS
``What?'' if you get a question wrong. ``Right!'' if you get it right. ``Please type a number.'' if arithmetic doesn't understand what you
typed.
SEE ALSO
bc(1), dc(1)
BSD
May 31, 1993 BSD