Re: Informix corrupts database at reboot

In article <47bi82$5o5@news.xmission.com> dbaresrc@xmission.com (DBA Resources) writes: >From: dbaresrc@xmission.com (DBA Resources) >Subject: Re: Informix corrupts database at reboot >Date: 2 Nov 1995 22:54:58 GMT >Ian Goddard (ian.goddard@geo2.poptel.org.uk) wrote: >>In article <DH1zxH.BDr@news.sgp.hp.com> Your_Name_Here <your@email.address.here> writes: >>>From: Your_Name_Here <your@email.address.here> >>>Subject: Re: Informix corrupts database at reboot >> >>>My project has encountered similar database corruption problems recently. >>>We are using Informix 7.1 on HP-UX 10.01. >> >>>Informix Support has insisted that Informix should not be corrupted even >>>without proper shutdown but they were not able to help to recover the DB. >> >>Just a thought - could fsck (or anything else) be hitting your database disks >>at reboot time? >> >Are you using raw disk space or cooked files? Are you using symbolic links >or direct addressing? I have never seen this happen except in cases of >operator/administrator error. Please email me all the specifics. >Carlton >-- >Carlton Doe "It's not *over* until I win!" -- Les Brown >DBA Resources, Inc. >Salt Lake City, UT http://www.xmission.com/~dbaresrc >dbaresrc@xmission.com PGP key: finger -l dbaresrc@xmission.com I just posted some additional thoughts on this sort of problem to a similar query. Ian