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
>>
> 
> 


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