kernel.org: Extended downtime announcement

kernel.org: Extended downtime announcement

[H. Peter Anvin]

In order to make the best use of available space, we will unfortunately
have to reconfigure the RAID arrays on the main kernel.org server.  This
will result in extended downtime for all kernel.org services, starting
at 16:00 PST/24:00 UTC this evening, March 17, 2003.  For
ftp/www/rsync/filehub.kernel.org, this downtime should be in the
ballpark of 2-3 hours; with luck less; for mirrors.kernel.org, this
downtime is expected to be 3-4 days.  Services will be phased in as they
become available, so if you get a "connection refused" from one service
other services might still be operational.

Hopefully this will be reasonably painless.

	-hpa

Re: kernel.org: Extended downtime announcement

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> In order to make the best use of available space, we will unfortunately
> have to reconfigure the RAID arrays on the main kernel.org server.  This
> will result in extended downtime for all kernel.org services, starting
> at 16:00 PST/24:00 UTC this evening, March 17, 2003.  For
> ftp/www/rsync/filehub.kernel.org, this downtime should be in the
> ballpark of 2-3 hours; with luck less; for mirrors.kernel.org, this
> downtime is expected to be 3-4 days.  Services will be phased in as they
> become available, so if you get a "connection refused" from one service
> other services might still be operational.
> 

OK, so I'm an idiot.

The correct downtime estimate is about 6-7 hours.  This is a matter of
simple arithmetric, but somehow I never bothered to actually calculate
it out.

Just to be on the safe side I'm going to estimate kernel.org being back
up around 00:00 PST/08:00 UTC.

Duh.

	-hpa