Re: Archiving linux-block

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 09/06/2017 08:10 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 09/06/2017 07:13 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 08:33 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 09/05/2017 08:19 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>> Since gmane.org is no longer operational linux-block messages are no longer
>>>> archived. I think it's useful to archive linux-block messages because it
>>>> makes it possible to review past discussions, especially for people who are
>>>> not subscribed to the list. How about activating archival by mail-archive.com
>>>> and spinics.net? As far as I know this can only be done by someone who is list
>>>> administrator. But I don't know who the linux-block list administrator(s) are?
>>>
>>> I always use marc.info:
>>>
>>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block
>>>
>>> If we want to add it elsewhere, that's fine with me. I'm probably the admin,
>>> I was the one that asked for the list to be created.
>>
>> Thanks Jens for the feedback. What I tried yesterday morning was to look up a
>> linux-block message by searching for its contents with a web search engine. That
>> search did not yield any results. Does this mean that messages on marc.info are
>> not indexed by Google? Is this a sufficient reason to let an additional web site
>> archive the linux-block messages?
> 
> Definitely, it'd be nice to have it be searchable. That's half the utility of
> an archive...
> 
> I'll see if I can get mail-archive.com setup.

spinics already has it, fwiw:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/


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Jens Axboe