The superblock corruption is normally caused by corrupt Magic number.
Sometimes un-availability of free blocks may also cause this. This could
also be happended if the soft partition is created on wrong disk
slice.Anyway, one can always try to mount the disk with secondary
superblock. Solaris and many other Unix flavors have got this flaw.
regards,
Fahd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Naveen, Nahata (IE10)" <Naveen.Nahata_at_honeywell.com>
To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: 9i Hardware Spec
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: fahd mirza
> >Solaris promises no future.
>
> I don't have much knowledge about OSes (I have just started to concentrate
> on learning Operating Systems), but why do you say so about Solaris?
>
> The reason why I ask so is that we are running on Solaris and we had a
> problem once in our development server. We had a file-system corruption
(the
> super-block got corrupted and we could not recover using alternate
> super-block), because of repeated power loss and abrupt shut-downs. I was
> told by the System Admin, that such a thing is extremely rare and it can
> happen on any OS (and that Solaris wasn't the culprit).
>
> Your statement makes makes me doubtful about the stability of Solaris OS
in
> light of the above mentioned incident.
>
> Regards
> Naveen
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