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From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
Subject: Re: [Gforge-admins] PgFoundry Move
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:33:41 -0800
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>


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.  ;-)

Gavin