Subject: Re: NetBSD.rmit.edu.au UP again
To: None <lm@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
From: Arthur Hoffmann <hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/1995 09:51:53
>
> I wrote:
> > Due to a disk failure, netbsd.rmit.edu.au (the Australian mirror)
> > is DOWN until further notice.
>
> > I will notify the list when it is back up and running.
>
> It's back up and running.
>
> The disk that 'failed' had logged messages about hard errors, but a
> reboot "fixed" it. In any case, I added a 300MB SCSI disk and
> controller (upto 1GB of disk space), and did some data moving
> operations.
> Result: -current is now on the SCSI disk, and I'm mirroring "packages"
> onto the potentially failing disk (cause -current is more important.)
>
> Another 1.3GB SCSI disk may be added in the future, so I can make the
> machine a full mirror of ftp.netbsd.org. Ahh, the joys of scrounging
> equipment to provide a service ;)
>
> Luke.
> --
> Luke Mewburn <lm@werj.com.au>
> ``Concealment is never as hard as people think, you must understand that. It's
> action while hiding that's the hard part.''
> -- Coyote, in Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Green Mars'
>
This is great news :)
Thanks for providing this service to us here in OZ.
Arthur.
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Arthur Hoffmann hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au