Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-announce (30 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Dear community,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:58:14PM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> > I'm sorry to say that download.opensuse.org will be unavailable for some
> > time.
> >
> > Its storage array broke down once again, and we have no backup.
> > (We are in need of hardware since ever; if anyone would be able to
> > sponsor some, we would be very glad about it.)
> >
> > This affects stage.opensuse.org as well (same box).
> >
> > I can't give a timeline yet, but expect it to be offline for one to
> > several days. 
>
> download.opensuse.org has suffered severe, but constricted filesystem
> damage. 
>
> We are working on a replacement system and hope to have it in place as
> soon as possible!
>
> Please refer to using a mirror in the meantime - see
> http://mirrors.opensuse.org/.

a temporary solution is in place now. It knows all mirrors, does full
geographical redirection and is reachable at
http://download.opensuse.org/ as usual. 

The broken disk array is being worked on while we speak. A time estimate
is hard to give. We are confident that the replacement will be ready
soon but the amount of time we need to get it finished depends on the
amount of damage on the storage.

Meanwhile, the workaround should be 98% functional -- so you should not
have to worry.

Thanks!
Peter
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