I once 'talked' someone through recovering from both drives failing
in a md
mirror. We replaced one drive and then the other failed. It was
probably a heat
problem since one or more case fans had failed. I actually never
spoke to
him (he has a thick accent which is hard to understand); we just
conversed
with SMS messages and screen shots.
Don't take it that I'm recommending not to update. (Kids, don't try
this at home).
You just have to be cautious what you do to a server that has to be
up
25 hours a day, 8 1/2 days a week, and 365 days a year which is
hundreds
of miles away. :-)
I had one server that had 1100+ days uptime until the operator
rebooted the
wrong server in the cluster. This was a couple of years ago so, add
about 730
days to that. We finally had to reboot last month because of a
failing hard drive.
I know you'll think I'm lying, but it was a Seagate Barracuda. =-O