sourceware.org downtime

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email
>telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down.
>
>As you can see, we are now back up again.
>
>We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID
>firmware.  Putting a new disk into the array caused massive
>system corruption.
>
>We're back online now, running from backups that are less than 24 hours
>old.  The RAID firmware has been updated and we've verified that this
>problem should not reoccur.
>
>Running from backups means that we've jumped back in time so if you've
>subscribed or unsubscribed from this list and now are either not getting
>or getting it, that's why.
>
>Also any package maintainers who released packages last Thursday (2005-02-03)
>or Wednesday (2005-02-02) should double check that their packages are
>still there.
>
>And now to bed.
>
>cgf
>  
>
For the record, I'd like to congratulate you and the other 
overseers/admins four your incredibly quick response time. You guys & 
gals are obviously doing a great job, and you've proven it once again.

Thanks!

rlc