Hi,
The mirror at Halmstad University is now (since this morning, UTC) officially in the mirror list and I have seen traffic all day.
Question: Is there any procedure to follow if I must schedule downtime for the server? (ie downtime for 5 minutes to update kernel *or* downtime for one day (or more).
Best regards
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Magnus Morén wrote:
Hi,
The mirror at Halmstad University is now (since this morning, UTC) officially in the mirror list and I have seen traffic all day.
Question: Is there any procedure to follow if I must schedule downtime for the server? (ie downtime for 5 minutes to update kernel *or* downtime for one day (or more).
Well, downtime for 5 minutes noone will notice - unless they are in the middle of a long download ,get kicked off and they arent in a position to resume ...
Downtime for a day or more will be picked up by our systems and the listing will automatically drop off our website etc.
In my experience when we are told about small outages - we dont look at the emails until after the outage has been and gone ....
Regards Lance
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and because it's your server, and it's a volunteer job to mirror whatever stuff you mirror, if you happen to need a little bit of downtime for the server to work more reliably (security updates, bugfixes etc), that downtime really shouldn't hurt anybody in the long run :) imho.
Lance Davis wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Magnus Morén wrote:
Hi,
The mirror at Halmstad University is now (since this morning, UTC) officially in the mirror list and I have seen traffic all day.
Question: Is there any procedure to follow if I must schedule downtime for the server? (ie downtime for 5 minutes to update kernel *or* downtime for one day (or more).
Well, downtime for 5 minutes noone will notice - unless they are in the middle of a long download ,get kicked off and they arent in a position to resume ...
Downtime for a day or more will be picked up by our systems and the listing will automatically drop off our website etc.
In my experience when we are told about small outages - we dont look at the emails until after the outage has been and gone ....
Regards Lance
-- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.
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Le lundi 21 mai 2007, Imre Gergely a écrit :
and because it's your server, and it's a volunteer job to mirror whatever stuff you mirror, if you happen to need a little bit of downtime for the server to work more reliably (security updates, bugfixes etc), that downtime really shouldn't hurt anybody in the long run :) imho.
It also depend the position you have in the mirror process, for instance is just one as another for Centos, anoying but harmless if it is down for 12H, but for mandriva it is one of the top level from which other official mirror sync from, in this case, two hour is already too much...
The second point is the size of files always increasing, at least more than the bandwidth we can usually provide. Three years ago, all distro was distributed as CD iso, now all come as DVD iso, download become longer. It often need a full day for several people to download just one image w/o any chance to just completed the download.
But hey, that's the life. And you'll never be able to provide a 24H a day, 365 days a year service, disk can always crashes, big power failure (this has happend to us recently, the whole university in dark), etc, etc... That's probably one reason there are several mirrors in the world :)
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