Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264968AbTF1ACd (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:02:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264966AbTF1AC2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:02:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:25544 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264961AbTF1ACT (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:02:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:16:25 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: Larry McVoy , Alan Cox , CaT , nick@snowman.net, Vojtech Pavlik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Patrick Mansfield , Larry McVoy , Alan Cox , CaT , nick@snowman.net, Vojtech Pavlik , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030627145727.GB18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 24 Wow. So this is a different server, this is the second backup machine. So in about a week we've had the primary die, the secondary have a bad disk, and the second backup have a bad disk. I don't know if you all realize this but at one point we had corrupted data in several repositories and the backups were also shot. But because BK replicates the data (as Peter Chubb says "you are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same") I was able to look through other replicas until I found the missing chunks and put them back. Maybe we should take a page from Oracle and start advertising. How's this? BitKeeper makes your source unbreakable I'm only half joking. If SVN/CVS/Clearcase/anyone else had both the primary and the backup fail, you are just screwed, there isn't anything you can do. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/