[bitfolk] 2025-02-02 ~00:03Z - Emergency reboot of host talisker

Hi, At approximately 00:03Z we start receiving alerts of various services not responding and it was determined that host talisker was having some problems with its storage. There were lots of errors being spewed into the kernel log from the SAS controller's driver mostly of a timeout variety, and none of the drives attached to it were responding. A number of its MD RAID arrays fell apart as a result and IO errors would have been seen inside your virtual machines. I did try a few things around resetting the controller but nothing worked so at around 00:35 I had to forcibly kill all running VPSes and reboot the host, which happened at about 00:29. The host talisker booted without incident and all its RAID arrays synced up. By around 00:39 all customer VPSes should have booted, and all those we have monitoring for did show as up by then. Due to abruptly losing access to storage, some data in memory will have been lost, but hopefully apps are aware of that. I do not think any reads or writes were corrupted so I don't think there should be any filesystem corruption. If you are seeing any problems and your VPS is actually on talisker than you should first have a look at your Xen Shell consoles. Apologies for the disruption. We will keep an eye on talisker to gain some assurance that this was a one-off event. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting