This story reminds me of my quote last week in the kitchen at work with some other employees... programmer: "What's your backup plan on that?" me: "updating my resume." :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Layer [mailto:b.layer at vikingelectronics.com] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 10:06 AM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: [TCLUG] Could Novell suck this badly? > > > Thought I'd share this tale of total system & network > annihilation. This one > is for real, folks. I wish it hadn't been so, but... > > Last Wednesday, I thought it would be prudent to tidy up my > network files, as > I am planning on leaving my current job in the > not-too-distant future. First > step, was to consolidate everything spread across the network > under my home > directory, so I could deal with it in a systemitized fashion. I had a > directory storing a big slug of .ISO images; probably 20 in > all. I picked up > that dir for a MOVE operation, and set it down in the home > dir. This should > have taken 5 seconds. > > Novell went to work... apparently, Novell never actually > moves anything - it > actually copies it, and as the system runs out of storage, it > discards the > old files in FIFO order. This is to allow the recovery of accidental > deletions. The 'moving' went on for several hours after I > went home for the > day. > > Here's where it gets funny. We have 72GB online, but for SOME > REASON, Novell > gets configured as as if it actually has 80GB of storage. I > am told this is > to allow for future expansion (an 8GB expansion?). Since I > was moving about > 15GB of files, and we had the server pretty loaded up, Novell > decided to > start wrting data to that "vitual" 8GB of space.... which > loops back onto the > start of the partition, and wipes out the system areas but > not before it > corrupts the FAT beyond repair. LOL! > > This took the entire Novell network down for three days, and > forced upgrade > of several packages, which did not want to re-install. The > admin brought in > external experts because the mess was so unmanageable. We > lost several days > work, and some business as well. They are still having > problems with Macola > Progression as I write this. I have nothing to do here right now. > > I spoke with the external guy, who told me that this is > common to ALL current > Novell systems, and he has seen it personally several times > now. In his > words, it's just a disaster waiting to happen anytime... > <smirk> To me, this > is pratically unthinkable. Could Novell really suck this badly? > > > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ++++++++++++++++ > | .:Bill Layer:. | Viking Electronics,Inc. > 1531 Industrial St | > | .:Sales Technician:. | Hudson, WI 54016 USA + > 715.386.8861 x210 | > | b.layer at vikingelectronics.com | > http://www.vikingelectronics.com | > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > ++++++++++++++++ > "Telecom Solutions for the 21st Century" + Powered by > Slackware Linux 7.1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >