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I first learned of GitHub having problems from a story on Hacker News. Since SoylentNews hosts its code there, I was curious as to what was going on. If it was indeed down, I wanted to pass the word on to the rest of the SoylentNews community.
The comments on that story suggested that GitHub read access was working okay (and a very quick check on my part of our code there confirmed that), but attempts to make changes are failing.
That's strange.
Then I took a look at GitHub's Status Page, where I found something even stranger... how they phrased their status messages! Take a look:
22:42 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
22:23 Eastern Standard Time
We are continuing to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
22:01 Eastern Standard Time
We continue work to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process.
21:41 Eastern Standard Time
We are continuing to work to migrate a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
21:22 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to work to migrate a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
21:02 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to migrate a data storage system in order to restore full access to GitHub.com.
20:43 Eastern Standard Time
We continue to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
20:23 Eastern Standard Time
We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
20:05 Eastern Standard Time
We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.
19:43 Eastern Standard Time
We're investigating problems accessing GitHub.com.
19:13 Eastern Standard Time
We are investigating reports of service unavailability.
19:09 Eastern Standard Time
Seems to me someone on GitHub once spent a little too much time exploring mazes in Colossal Cave. Will they be able to fix the problem before they run out of permutations?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @03:55AM (4 children)
Would have gone with Meta instead of Breaking News nexus. Half-asleep, I stumbled into this story expecting to see true GitHub chaos.
With that out of the away:
You'll be vindicated if they start deleting everything.
Is there a need to backup SoyletNews code periodically?
Maybe they switched the faulty storage system to FAT?
~blame
Embrace, Extend...
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @06:06AM (2 children)
FAT? This obesity must have been the result of memes. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @07:14AM (1 child)
All filenames will be converted to 8.3 format.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:51AM
butine~1.doc
edmylo~1.doc
ngfile-1.doc
namesu~1.doc
fucker~1.doc
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday October 22 2018, @01:53PM
If you need to backup a DVCS like Git, you're doing it wrong. Every dev should already have a full copy of the repo (and of course each dev should have personal backups of their machines).
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