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From: Darcy Buskermolen <[email protected]>
To: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Gforge-admins] PgFoundry Move
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:39:58 -0800
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On Monday 16 January 2006 14:33, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> 80% of the Gforge admins are Linux guys afaik, which is why
> >> we need more FreeBSD help.
> >
> > You're probably going to see that split for anything where you compare
> > linux with freebsd today, aren't you? Or at least on average.
>
> I agree with that.
>
> > Yes, backup is definitly more important than failover. But failover is
> > nice :-)
> > But in reality, do we have it? As in failover that works in
> > practice as
> > well. Just look at what happened when there was an attempt to move
> > svr2
> > (wwwmaster) off unionfs to a new VM *on the same machine*.
> > It's very good in principle. I'm sure in a lot of cases it works in
> > practice as well. I'm concerned it doesn't always, and that we are
> > very
> > relying on certain people to make it work in that case.
>
> Failover is nice, but I don't agree that VM's are the best wait to
> handle fail over.
>
> > I'd say trivial. Just poll the ppl who'd be expected to admin it for
> > preferences, and decide on one. Then stick with it as much as you can
> >
> > :-) There is absolutely no need to do a general poll of the whol
> >
> > community, since that's definitly going to give you more than you want
> >
> > :-)
>
> Yeah I just meant on GForge Admins or the current list of community
> server admins.
>
> > Everything else does not run FreeBSD. All www.postgresql.org servers
> > except borg (there are 5 in total, IIRC) run Linux today. AFAIK,
> > archives and search also run on linux. (And on a mix of distros, which
> > is probably not ideal)
>
> Except borg? wow.  And here I am a linux guy donating the only FBSD
> box.  ;-)

if it makes you feel better ca3 is a FreeBSD box :-)

Which reminds me there is something bogus with the checker for mirror 
freshness, because it says I'm behind by a "long" interval yet I picked up 
all the point releases before the announcement hit the lists...

>
> Gavin

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