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> good.  But this crash left the system in a semi-functional state.  The 
> networking stack was up and running, the kernel was running, but the
> filesystem was not functional and because of this the kernel was in a nearly
> unusable state. Because the system was pingable, most tcp-stack level
> detectors would not have been able to tell that something serious was wrong.
> The machine (our main production machine that serves millions of hits a week)
> was down for three hours.

Isn't this what watchdog is for? I think even the software watchdog would
catch this, then you can panic and reboot.

M
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