November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
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Recovering from OS drive failure
OS drive failure is one of the critical failures when a node becomes fully inaccessible. Since Proxmox stores all cluster-related configuration files on Proxmox Cluster file system (pmxcfs), no cluster data is lost even when the OS drive fails completely. Refer to Chapter 3, Proxmox under the Hood, to recap details on pmxcfs. There are mainly two types of OS drive failure:
- Physical drive failure
- OS data corruption