freebsd stable - May 2011 - FreeBSD mail was down for a few hours

Hey,

Just FYI, the RAID controller on mx1.FreeBSD.org decided to take a break (IE,
firmware crashed) so that all inbound mail, and much internal mail too, was not
delivered for around 4.5 hours.

I think mx1 was one of the hosts which have not had RAID firmware etc. updated
so it's likely the problem has already been fixed, but I will look into that
when I have some spare time.

Everything should be working again and all queued mail delivered.

PS. this mail is primarily sent to stable@ so non-committers can also get the
information.

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen
Hat: FreeBSD.org admins team

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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Simon L. B. Nielsen
wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Just FYI, the RAID controller on mx1.FreeBSD.org decided to take a break
(IE, firmware crashed) so that all inbound mail, and much internal mail too, was
not delivered for around 4.5 hours.
> 
> I think mx1 was one of the hosts which have not had RAID firmware etc.
updated so it's likely the problem has already been fixed, but I will look
into that when I have some spare time.
> 
> Everything should be working again and all queued mail delivered.
> 
> PS. this mail is primarily sent to stable@ so non-committers can also get
the information.
Simon,

I'm curious -- what brand of RAID controller and what driver on FreeBSD?
Not that I have any solutions, just curious about what's in use.

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