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They messed up and either ran out of disk space or had an array fail. Everything in that statement reads like they are trying to frame a critical production fai
by jm4 3y ago
They messed up and either ran out of disk space or had an array fail. Everything in that statement reads like they are trying to frame a critical production failure as a glitch that occurred during maintenance. This wasn’t about a routine storage expansion. It was an emergency caused by some operational screwup and the only way to fix it is to rebuild the array with new disks.
- jskrablin 3y agoI had a raid6 array going almost bad when 2 HDDs called it a day at the same time years ago. Had to send the entire office of 30 people to unscheduled holiday for two days before the array was rebuilt with new drives. Third drive failing during the rebuild would likely result in a week off as the storage would need a full rebuild. I can imagine something similar happening here, however there should be a fail over storage setup in case they're selling a service.