Stopped mirroring download.fedoralegacy.org as the project has stopped providing any new updates. The data will stay available on this mirror.

Two filesystem related crashed since we moved to the new hardware. It seems like the x86_64 port of Linux is not as well tested as the i386 port. We are thinking about moving to i386 again which would be unfortunate but if it is necessary we will do it. Right now we are still watching […]

The new server arrived yesterday and since today we are running from the new 64bit hardware.

Changed the Mandriva mirror script to be two scripts: one that mirrors the official tree and the other mirrors the devel tree. The Mandriva mirror has become very big and until now the script normally never finished before the next instance was started.

Attached a new RAID (StorEdge 3310 from SUN). It is not really new but it has 671GB and our big 4TB RAID is reaching its limits.

Downtime today was a bit longer than expected. But we finally made some long outstanding changes. We are now using grub instead of lilo and with this change we enabled the serial console in the BIOS. So we now have the possibility to control the output from power-on until the OS is running. We also […]

Updated to Fedora Core 6. A reboot is still required to get the newest kernel running.

Many reboots to get a newer kernel running but all attempts failed.

Glory and fame for this server: FTP-Server mit Massendurchsatz.

Reboot to install a second network adapter and to boot a newer kernel.

Upgrade to Fedora Core 5.

After a reboot the /ftp partition was not mounted anymore. According to dmesg: qla2300 0000:03:05.0: Cable is unplugged…. This should be fixed pretty soon.

Yesterday a router has been replaced which caused an outage of about 30 minutes. The good thing about this outage was that the shaping of our bandwidth usage has been removed and it immediately jumped to over 150 Mbit/s. So now were back in the real business.

Due to errors on the uplink between Esslingen and Stuttgart a bandwidth shaping (80 Mbit/s) has been activated by our provider.

New Mirror added: CentOS

New Mirror added: openSUSE

A new kernel was installed and a very big RAID (4TB). The new RAID is not in use yet because were are still doing tests on how to use it. The RAID is attached via Fibre Channel and consists of 12 400GB SATA drives.

Since Friday I was updating the server to Fedora Core 4 and since today it is serving Fedora Core 4 and running Fedora Core 4.

After about 150 days without a reboot a hardware re-configuration made a reboot necessary. Two RAIDs were removed and one was added and now we have 100GB additional space which of course will also be used for the FTP mirror. The two RAIDs were over 7 years old and together they only provided around 230GB. […]

The whole university was disconnected from the Internet due to construction work during which our uplink was cut. It took them some hours to fix it but now everyting is back to normal. Outage was from 7:30 to 12:25.