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files.myopera.com outage this morning

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This morning around 8 AM CEST we found out that no file from files.myopera.com was accessible anymore.
If you were using My Opera at that time, you certainly saw lots of Forbidden (403s) errors.

The server couldn't access any file on the filesystem.
All pictures gone, all user css gone, every user file missing.

Connecting to the machine, and trying to get directory contents, we only got back I/O errors.
We tried to remount the folder, with no luck. We also tried to stop all services, unmount and remount. Didn't work. Then we rebooted the server, hoping for a clean mount of the filesystem.

It worked. Except that it was down again 2 hours later.



Our mighty sysadmins started working on the issue, and by lunch time, it was fixed.
Then we restarted the services, and everything looked good. At around 12:15 CEST, the files were back online. No data loss reported. Just panic for a while :-)

What happened is that a tiny little fibre channel connector, also known as GBIC, decided to leave this cruel world this morning.

Right on time to celebrate our 3,000,000 users!

10 million pictures!Dragonfruit release

Comments

Dacotah 2. October 2009, 11:44

Great work in fixing it. :cheers:
Thank you.

:hat: On 3,000,000 users :hat:
:cheers:

Tamil 2. October 2009, 11:45

Thanks and :hat:

coxy 2. October 2009, 11:49

I'll buy you a pint if you back up all my stuff. :wink:

drlaunch 2. October 2009, 13:06

Wheee!

3 000 000! :hat:

ZAHEK 2. October 2009, 14:23

:smile:

selurus 2. October 2009, 17:27

3 000 000 :eyes:
:cheers:

Muttsfan 2. October 2009, 19:44

rip GBIC ???-2009 :cry:

Chas4 3. October 2009, 05:23

:cool:

how did the subscription to this blog break again?

liegedel 4. October 2009, 22:00

thanks for your work !

philry4n 5. October 2009, 00:52

rip

drummer8001 17. October 2009, 20:10

cstrep 17. October 2009, 20:30

@drummer8001: the forum post you're mentioning is not related to the outage we were reporting here. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the thread in the forum.

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