CTI heads-up

Joseph Myers josmyers@redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 19:27:30 GMT 2026


On Mon, 6 Jul 2026, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jul  6, 2026, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why do you consider a mirror update issue without data loss a
> > "severe mishap?"
> 
> A single mistake left mirrors all over severely outdated and in need of
> a lengthy recovery process.  It exposed several severe flaws in the
> service architecture:

You could say similar things about the widespread data corruption on 
Sourceware in August 2017 after a new SSD mirroring configuration was set 
up, and the very ad hoc recovery process following that, for example.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com



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