Meagan Longoria writes about an outage due to improper file layout:
One day, a manager asked me if I could help on an urgent matter: the application suddenly could no longer execute transactions on the production database and the database connection was intermittently failing. The system admin was busy with other duties, so I was the closest thing they had to a DBA. All they could tell me was the production database had crashed and they got an error message about insufficient disk space.
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