if Linux booting under 5 seconds is scary, what would you call the incident of finding your Dell PowerEdge 6850 server RAID 10 RedHat AS 3 Update 5 OS's hard drive /dev/sda's partition table simply evaporated (non-existed any more) after a normal 'init 6' ? No apparent system hardware faulted... After recover the OS, re-install Oracle Cluster Ready Service and re-done Oracle 10g R1 -> R2 instance upgrade, everything seems to be working again... but still.. that's scary when I know for 99.9% sure that I'm the only one rooted on the box...

Other weirdos: can't get Oracle ASM instance to connect to Cluster Manager even if $ORACLE_HOME/bin/ocssd.bin is running after $ORACLE_HOME/bin/localconfig reset ... what makes dbua working and NOT working? Acronis TrueImage Echo Server would give read error when I use 'trueimagecmd --partition: --filename: -create' to backup raw partition that contains SYSAUX, SYSTEM tablespace under Oracle ASM ...