K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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@thilo @cloudflare Akamai is already helping us with a bunch of other hosting, but for mirrors a hardware system with a specific drive configuration works best.
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@mori that would be lovely, thanks! Even if we just have an option to use it as a failover in case of trouble (like today).
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@purpleidea @luis_in_brief I can turn it around and ask why are Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Oracle and other commercially backed distros still dependent on a network of public mirrors like it's still 1998?
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@mori It fluctuates wildly, but according to pretty graphs, we send about 1TB per hour, or ~2.5 Gbps sustained.
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@Anarcat Next, you'll suggest that we switch to Debian or something. ;)
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@Anarcat So, everything got super complicated because these are LVM RAID6 with LVM Cache, and lvm REALLY REALLY hated a lot of things I tried to do because of that caching layer. At some point I was pretty sure I lost all 50TB of data (we do have a copy of it on that other system), but it was pretty terrifying. At this stage, it's rebuilding with both replacement drives and I'm trying not to breathe too hard in its direction.
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The RAID6 array is rebuilding, but it will be a whiiiiiile. And, of course, there's always the chance that another drive will decide to give up the ghost while the rebuild is going ahead and we'll be up a creek.
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@luis_in_brief kernel.org is a charitable organization and mirrors.kernel.org is a community service that falls outside of the main scope of kernel.org duties.
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mirrors.kernel.org is down because it threw 2 disks in a RAID-6 array and then ground itself to a halt. I'm trying to resuscitate it. Please use mirrors.edge.kernel.org (it's pointing at our only remaining server that is now up, in Amsterdam).
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
We need more redundancy for these systems. After exiting Equinix, we are reduced to just 2 nodes (and hence, we're now down to 1 until I rebuild the RAID array on the one that's currently offline).
If you can donate us a server with at least 70TB of space and lots of bandwidth, I'd like to hear from you, but it has to come with hosting, as we don't have any physical datacentres any more and must rely on the kindness of strangers to host them.
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lwn@fedi.lwn.net[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This h [...]
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Last minor version is always .19. Except for 4.20 -- but only because we were high and forgot.
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@ydroneaud The last Linux version will be called "Vista." This way we can say that we're doing it "hasta la Vista."
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It will be 7.0, then 10.0, then 11.0 with Copilot.
True story.
True story.
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So let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that you were foolish enough to try to make a living by writing high-quality, well-researched, technical articles about Linux and free-software development. I know that's crazy, but bear with me. In such a scenario, how does one succeed in a world increasingly full of stuff like this?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-7-0-looms-large-inside-the-landmark-kernel-release-that-could-reshape-open-source-computing/
(I'll post no more links to that site, I promise).
These folks appear to take the stuff we humans write, inject a bunch of errors, then slop it out to the world.
If you were to engage in the silly quest described above, you would find that what you do is increasingly buried in the flood of this kind of material. Does anybody have any bright ideas about how one might survive in such an environment?
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