CTI heads-up

Alexandre Oliva oliva@gnu.org
Tue Jul 7 01:55:57 GMT 2026


On Jul  6, 2026, Joseph Myers <josmyers@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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 A single mistake left mirrors all over severely outdated and in need of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.

I could indeed, though I think it's different for various reasons, but
if you want to argue it's the same, having to pay now to move to a
service level we used to get without charge 9 years ago, from a service
that is even better now than it used to be then, doesn't make the move a
very attractive proposition.

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