Disk Maintenance

[hadrick]

What is all disk maintenance on Hostgator network status section?

Thanks.

For the most part, we keep it under control, but sometimes there are unavoidable issues related to disks, so we must take the server down to perform disk maintenance to prevent data loss. Did you have an issue with one of the servers, perhaps your account is on one of them?

[hadrick]

Originally Posted by GatorZach

For the most part, we keep it under control, but sometimes there are unavoidable issues related to disks, so we must take the server down to perform disk maintenance to prevent data loss. Did you have an issue with one of the servers, perhaps your account is on one of them?

I just want to know what is this Disk Maintenance terms mean? What do you do at that time?

We run a file system check to check for orphan files and misplaced inodes, corrupted sectors, and a whole bunch of other things. We also check the RAID status as well to make sure our disk array is intact.

[hadrick]

Do you swap the RAID drives at the time of disk maintenance?

Normally, unless the disk maintenance notice indicates something else, it's for a disk swap/replacement.

[hadrick]

Not sure what you meant, did you mean, you swap the driver on Disk maintenance?