First, apologies for for cross-posting folks, but this is a fairly important message.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- At about noon today we discovered that the database server that supports both http://dev.gapines.org and http://demo.gapines.org had begun suffering an ongoing catastrophic hardware incident, and it has been taken off-line in order to perform required maintenance. The server in question is connected to a networked storage device (SAN) via a fibre channel connection, and this connection has failed during database writes. The exact root cause of the failure is not known at this time, but one of the symptoms is the corruption of the main system tables that keep track of all user tables in the main database used by both demo and dev. Because of this, large portions of the database have become damaged beyond recovery. We are actively working to rebuild a demo and dev database, and will alert these lists when this work is complete. We apologize for any inconvenience, as unavoidable as this outage is. --miker
