Thanks Brian, and the new mirror sounds like it will be really awesome! On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Brian Chee <c...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> It seems some very major power work is being done at the UH Manoa campus > and we've just been told that the weekend of June 10 that power to the > Hawaii Institute of Geophysics will be out as they cut over to the new > power substation. (which is where the mirror server resides) > > Thusly, the friday before, in the late afternoon, I'll be shutting down > both the new and old mirror sites. I hope to be able to get an estimate > soon on when I'll be able to bring it back up that sunday or monday. > > Sorry for the inconvenience, not to mention all the changes and fixing of > download scripts for distros. Teething pains of a volunteer team only able > to work on the sites part time. I will assure you though, that new scripts > for things like Arch Linux, Raspbian, etc are in the works and much more > detailed documentation is being created so that work can be done by a > larger team of volunteers. The architecture of the mirror site has changed > dramatically to take advantage of newer technologies in virtualization and > containerization to make backups, rollbacks, upgrades and such dramatically > easier. We've also gone away from the old NAS that keeps resetting to > readonly mounts, and the new server is ALL DAS to increase speed and > reliability. > > Lastly, once I get off my behind and finish the fiber optic upgrades, I > hope to coordinate with the campus IT group to provision a direct 10gig > campus backbone connection to help handle the increasing popularity of > Linux. > > *So please mark your calendar so that you don't try to do a big download > from either new or old mirror on the weekend of June 10th.* > > /brian chee > > > -- > ******************************************** > University of Hawaii SOEST > Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) > Brian Chee <c...@hawaii.edu> > 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 > Honolulu, HI 96822 > Office: 808-956-5797 <(808)%20956-5797> > > > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org