Installing artifact: [your file name here] (Input/output error), Result too large, and disk errors.

From time to time I was getting the "[INFO] Error installing artifact: [your file name here] (Input/output error)" error message from Maven. It started happening at seemingly random points during maven builds but it seemed to favor bonking on large zip/war files. Then I started seeing "Result too large" errors. At that point I made sure I had a clean backup on the sever, rebooted, and crossed my fingers.

My machine failed to boot. It just sat there with the black and white whirly thingy Mac startup screen.

I chalked the problem up to I/O gremlins from the planet Zorng, so I called my IT group, who dropped the Disk Utility and Disk Warrior bombs on my SSD. After they were done, I had to manually refresh my Spotlight index, which took a few hours, but then things were back to normal. One other thing I learned: don't let IDEA attempt to re-index files until *AFTER* you've let Spotlight update its own index.