What is the current HD usage? I am a current student (PhD, so I will be here for a while) and I have some spare hardware if necessary that we could use to revive it. Having a local mirror is really helpful.
- Y On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Ken Tossell <k...@tossell.net> wrote: > The mirror server's had a combination of a failed OS disk, some > filesystem trouble and a broken SATA controller. We're not sure why it > locked up last Friday, but it's down right now because the SATA > controller had its very frequent intermittent failure after the server > was brought back up yesterday. We hoped the controller would start > working after a remote reboot, but the machine never came back online. > > Even after we get the server running, there's a good chance of downtime > with the current hardware. We are running with zero redundancy in the / > disk, and the remaining drive is identical to the one that failed. Also, > the SATA controller could break and disconnect the main software storage > disk array at any time. There's a ~90% chance that the array won't come > up after the next power outage. If that happens, we'll need to manually > disconnect and reconnect the power several times in order to get the > server going. > > I do some maintenance (adding mirrors, mostly), but since I'm no longer > at the university, other people have been taking care of all of the > issues that need local attention. > > Ken > > On 07/31/2014 01:33 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote: > > I believe the mirror is run by Ken Tossell (k...@tossell.net). > > > > - Y > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Moshe M. Katz <mmk...@umd.edu> wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> There's been very little traffic on this list recently (correction, none > >> at all), so I hope that people are still around. > >> > >> The mirror.umd.edu server appears to be down, and the only published > >> email address is "mirror@hostname", which is, of course, down with it. > >> > >> Does anyone know who the current maintainer is and/or what the story is > >> here? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Moshe > >> > >> -- > >> Moshe Katz > >> mmk...@umd.edu > >> (301) 867-3732 > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Stuckman <stuck...@umd.edu> > wrote: > >> > >>> Do you know who runs this mirror? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> *From:* Nicholas Rossomando [mailto:nross...@terpmail.umd.edu] > >>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:55 AM > >>> *To:* Jeff Stuckman > >>> *Subject:* Re: Red Hat: What we've found so far > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Well, right now, zero data from UMD. The mirror is down and has been > for > >>> several days now. If it comes back up, it's definitely ideal for > however > >>> far back it goes. > >>> > >>> Noted, and will do. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > >
