Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:10 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:06:36 +0800, Ian Kent said:
> > So, there's a power outage and the UPS had a glitch.
> 
> Murphy can get a *lot* more creative than that.
> 
> So we'd outgrown the capacity on our UPS and diesel generator, and decided
> to replace them.  So we schedule downtime for a Saturday.  Rather scary, we
> had a Sun E10K that had been powered-up for several years, and just as expected,
> a good fraction of the 400+ drives it had failed to re-spinup.  While recovering
> from that, we discovered that although the vast majority of the 400 drives were
> either mirrors or raidsets, due to a config error, the boot volume wasn't
> mirrored (fortunately, it spun up OK so we dodged the bullet), so we fixed that.
> 
> Literally the next Friday, not even a week later, a contractor relocating a
> door into our machine room shorted out a sensor circuit in our fire suppression
> system, triggering a Halon dump.  Of course, no amount of UPS and diesel was
> going to save us now, because there was a safety interlock that killed the
> power feeds if the Halon dumped.  This time, since they'd all been stressed
> just a week before, only 2 of the 400+ disks on the E10K failed to spin up.
> 
> Guess which two. ;)

Eeeeeekkkk!!
The mirrors, of course.

Ian