As you may have noticed from the black out last weekend, we have been experiencing some server instability. 2 disks in the raid array had been becoming degraded. This is not a critical problem, because we have a raid5 system with 1 hotspare drive (which means we can survive 2 simultaneous disk failures).

The disks have been replaced and we have built a new kernel (which has a newer driver for the raid controller) and installed the newest control tool (3DM 2) which should prevent server halting from ECC repair actions in the future.

So i'm just posting this news item to let you people know what the downtime was about exactly, and that our man Jeffry has hastily taken care of whatever needed beeing taken care of.