I think it all comes down to integrity and compatibility issues with all the changes being made. I and a few others warned months ago this was going to happen, but they pushed forward at warp speed anyway. They seriously need to stop doing all this on the production servers and test these changes on a home system by someone that fully understands this at a fundamental level. I used to manage a sub-cluster and intranet server environment for about 2,000 users and I would never in a million years upgrade anything until it was tested and retested a dozen times. When you have a few million dollars on the line per week you kinda don't want to f**k things up. I think they got captured by the cool factor tbh.I have some technical questions if I may.
What was the cause? Corruption of the MBR, faulty/erroring disk, some system service that somehow wrote to boot, a faulty update?
Or was it just one of these weird things sometimes happening with some really long running servers that they just seem to wait until system shutdown/reseat to manifest the problem. Could the boot partition already have been damaged for a while? Since these files there are usually loaded into ram from the bootloader, the damage could have originated ever since the last reseat.
What actually caused this? Was it the crash?
If the hash changed, that usually means the data changed. So how is it possible the attachments still exist, but the files have different bits? Was it a distributed file system? Is XFs hash reliant on the exact metadata (creation date and modification date)?
Basically the same question as in the point before with addition, is this because of metadata/encoding of the file metadreplies
Does this mean this goes only for the attachment part of the forum, or the whole forum content, like threads and replies?
How did you guys actually do it in the end? Simple copy of the root dir? Since it was obviously no full file backup, and why was this data missed? Was the normal data also effected by the partition corruption?
Anyway, all in all still good job. And happy to hear some news. Just wanted to ask, since these were questions I had while reading
Yeah fucking shit up is a norm for here lol on another note as game devs can you guys not make the fucking main character look like he had a fucking lobotomy how exactly is this stylish?
Yeah some kind of home lab for testing would be the right move, or just having solid backup systems, with daily, weekly or bi weekly backups or a RAID configuration. This is I think what surprises me the most, since this is pretty standard.
Well a working raid1 configuration will be 100% better than whatever was in place before. Would still recommend some kind of extra backup, can be heavily compressed, which is stored in another physical location.
there will be 3 backups, on a off site host, on a backup server i run and on raid1
almost all videos/images/gifs are broken and perm lost on lewdcorner, not just LU.
Understood. What I mean is. Whenever there is a required post (even before the images were noticeably broken) It would show all images broken until I read the required post. Instead of redirecting me to the required post page. So I have to go to the lewdcorner homepage to see the required post. Then the images are restored on latest updates page. Nowadays its only a few.
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