Hello, The upgrade was very successful. ftp.scientificlinux.org is back to it's regular filesystem. rsync has been turned on on rsync.scientificlinux.org. Thank you for your patience. Troy Troy Dawson wrote: > Hello, > rsync has been turned off on rsync.scientificlinux.org and > ftp.scientificlinux.org. It will be switched back on at 12:30 when we > have switched back to the updated disks. > Certain settings of rsync will cause you to basically redownload whole > repositories, only to have them redownloaded again when we switch back. > This isn't critical, but is a waste of network bandwidth for you and > for us. > > Once again, rsync has been turned off. It will be turned on at 12:30 pm > CDT (a half hour after noon) > > We apologize for the inconvenience. > Troy Dawson > > Troy Dawson wrote: >> Hello, >> The backend to ftp.scientificlinux.org and rsync.scientificlinux.org >> is getting a hardware upgrade. This means that the server will be up, >> but it's main disks will be down. >> Because we will be doing some backend flipping, we really do not >> expect anyone to notice anything, other than things being a bit >> slower. But I wanted to send this e-mail out anyway ... just incase. >> >> Initial backend change >> Thursday November 16, 2006 5:30 am CST >> >> Backend change back >> Thursday November 16, 2006 12:30 pm CST >> >> The way we are doing the changeover should not affect anyone but the >> longest of ftp downloads ... but just so you know, incase you see any >> errors during that time. >> >> Troy >> > > -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________