Re: READ ONLY & I/O ERROR

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Sam Jas <samjas33(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
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> I am frequently getting read-only file system error on my server.
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> We are using postgreSQL, GridSQL database. The size of database is very huge.
> Architecture Details:
> CentOS 5.3 64 bit Areca high point rocket raid 3520 8 port

Areca doesn't make the high point rocket raid cards (which are medium
quality RAID cards).

> 32 GB RAM
> assemble hardware

Did you follow proper ESD precautions when building this machine??

> We are daily processing millions of rows and loadiing into database. We have marked that when we create a new database it worked fine upto 20 or 25 days. After that we
> are getting errors like "read only file system" , data is corrupted. Therefore we are running fsck to remove bad blocks from the disk. However, after running fsck also we are getting the same error.
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> I will appreciate you if somebody help me to get rid out of this issue.

Sounds like your hardware is bad. Could be mobo / cpu / memory or
RAID card. Does this machine "hang" every so often or anything?

I'd run memtest86+ on it first to confirm good cpu / memory / mobo.

Quick factoid from my days as an electronics instructor in the USAF,
95% of all ESD induced failures are latent in nature, either resulting
in catastrophic failure or thermal degradation some months or years
down the road.