InnoDB is known to have crash-recovery capabilities and thus is called a crash safe storage engine (in contrary to MyISAM). Nevertheless under certain circumstances it seems like InnoDB pages can get corrupt during a crash and then a manual crash-recovery is needed.
Oracle/MySQL blames in such cases the Operating System, the I/O system or the hardware. What we have seen is that such incidents occur more often on Windows systems and when people are running their databases in a virtualized environment …
