Things librarians try not to think about

I received this explanation for a system malfunction in an email this morning:

Services have been restored on the HPRC NAS servers. A full filesystem, due to core dumps from DMF software, caused the High Availability software to "flap". The filesystem is common to both servers, hence the service wouldn't start succesfully on either server, leading to the "flapping". Scripts are being written to avoid
this particular problem in future.

I have a feeling I don't even want to know what it means. Sadly, I think this was meant to be the "user friendly" version.



PS, the quote is cut and paste from the email - their spelling errors, not mine.