Downtime was one hour today. This was necessary to make hardware changes. Old RAID removed from rack. New RAID installed into the rack. New memory installed in the RAIDs.

The 180GB RAID was upgraded to 600GB. The kernel was updated to support XFS and more than 4GB RAM. Fedora Core 2 was installed two days ago.

A new RAID with additional 600GB was attached. New kernel installed.

The breakdown of an UPS powering three of our external RAID arrays required a reboot of the system.

Once again a reboot to update the kernel to 2.4.24.

One reboot was necessary to connect on new RAID and to change the layout and configuration of one of the already connected RAIDs. The server has now 903GB of diskspace which is used for the mirrors.

Our provider disabled our whole network for the last two days to investigate network errors on our uplink. We used this network downtime to run a fsck over all our big RAIDs and could therefore make something useful during the two days nobody was able to connect to us. We were also able to do some minor repartitioning and are now running with Linux 2.4.22-ac4.

The instabilities of the last weeks seem finally over. A new SCA backplane was installed, all RAIDs are working as expected and no more SCSI errors are reported. So we are prepared to create new uptime record for this server.

In the last weeks there were many unannounced reboots to update the bios of every component because one of our RAIDs is refusing to use all available disks and this is the only help the manufacturer is offering us.

A new mirror has been added: auroralinux.org

2.4.22 didn’t work very good and therefore we are using again 2.4.21-rc2-ac2 with 64GB support.

Downtime to upgrade the hardware. Two additional CPUs. 4GB of additional RAM and 150GB new harddisk space. A new kernel has also been installed (2.4.22).

The ftp and http processes were disabled for a short time to unplug the external RAIDs and connect them to a new UPS.

Reboot to install new kernel: 2.4.21-pre2-ac2

Big change: The IP address has been changed from 134.108.34.10 to 129.143.116.10. Right now it seems to work quite normal but we will see how this change will influence the current status. More information here when the transition is finished.

The SuSE mirror has been completley redesigned. It is now mirrored from a more official place and the directory structure makes therefore now more sense. Get SuSE here.

RedHat 9 has been released. Also available via apt.

A new mirror has been added. The eclipse project is now also available from here. Get eclipse.

This server has been updated to RedHat 9.

New record. Yesterday the total outgoing traffic was over 11TB. Never before has ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de delivered so much data.