RIP - dead harddisk.. From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue Sep 10 2013 - 22:26:17 EST
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1309.1/01669.html The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my main workstation just died on me. I had pushed out _most_ of my pulls today, so realistically I didn't loose a lot of work. However, any people having outstanding pull requests or patches that they expected me to merge that are not in the current tree on git.kernel.org, you may want to re-send the email, because I had archived emails as I merged them, and I may not have found all the ones that never made it out.. I know a few involved, but.... That said, wait until tomorrow. I'll try to see if I can recover the disk, but right now my machine refuses to even see the boot sector on it, and tries to boot from the network instead. So I'm not all that hopeful. If worst comes to worst, I'll just do the last next days of the merge window on the laptop that I was planning on finishing it off with anyway, since I have travel coming up. At least this didn't happen at the very beginning of the merge window... Linus ----------------------------------- Re: RIP - dead harddisk.. From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue Sep 10 2013 - 23:00:35 EST On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > Linus> The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my > Linus> main workstation just died on me. > > What model, if you care to share? I figure you're a perfect storm of > SSD beating with all your compiles and git pulls, etc. So I don't want to necessarily blame the harddisk, since it's just ten days since I upgraded the rest of my machine, after it worked years in the previous one. That just makes me go "hmm". As far as I know, all the fans etc were working fine, but.. > And may I suggest that you get TWO of them next time and mirror them, > for just this case? The SysAdmin in my shouting out here... I long ago gave up on doing backups. I have actively moved to a model where I use replacable machines instead. I've got the stuff I care about generally on a couple of different machines, and then keys etc backed up on a separate encrypted USB key. So it's inconvenient. Mainly from a timing standpoint. But nothing more. Linus -- Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
