Re: FYI: developer CVS still down.

I wonder if this was a filesystem corruption, and the broken job.java 
the first symptom of it that we saw. Now imagine if that corruption had 
been going along slowly, tainting files here and there, while everyone 
is busy adding new stuff to the repository. It would take a long time to 
recover from that...

Guijarro, Julio wrote:
> From Sourceforge:
> http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/
> 
> ( 2006-04-03 05:55:21 - Project CVS Service )   On 2006-03-30 the
> developer CVS server had a substantial system failure. Due to the
> implementation of the CVS service, there is a single point of failure
> with multiple points of recovery (there is more than one data source we
> could potentially recover from if there is any data loss as a result of
> the failure). This outage currently affects developer CVS access
> directly, but we have disabled tarball updates and data syncs from the
> developer CVS server to the anonymous pserver/ViewCVS hosts as an
> additional level of precaution. Our main focus since the outage was
> detected has been to safegaurd all data on the developer CVS server as
> well as possible. We are currently attempting to backup the data on the
> host, which is taking longer than we initially anticipated it would, but
> is a necessary step to fully safegaurd the host's data. Next, we are
> going to perform some data validation to ensure the data set appears
> valid. Pending successful completion of those steps, we'll reenable
> developer CVS access. A few days after, we'll reenable CVS tarballs and
> syncs to anonymous CVS. In the mean time, we're currently advancing
> plans for a CVS architecture change based upon the knowledge we gained
> during Subversion deployment to eliminate the single point of failure
> that developer CVS currently has, add horizontal scalability and overall
> service resiliance. However, we still do not have an estimate on when
> developer CVS services will be restored, but we have been, and currently
> are actively working to restore access to CVS. We appreciate your
> patience with us while we work to properly resolve this major outage. 
> 
> ( 2006-03-31 07:00:01 - Project CVS Service )   On 2006-03-30 the
> developer CVS server had a hardware issue that required us to take the
> service offline. We are actively working on this problem and hope to
> have it back up soon. There is not a current estimate for the duration
> of this outage, but when we get one, it will be posted on the site
> status page (this page). We currently expect this outage to last 48
> hours, at minimum.
> 




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