[ale] ga tech mirror?

D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. forum at lemcoe.com
Mon Oct 24 16:38:26 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> This was sent out at 16:10 10/18/2011 to a GT computer support staff mailing list. There has not been an update since then.
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> For those of you that use (or have users that use) GTlib (aka {www,ftp,rsync}.gtlib.gatech.edu), it's down and running a filesystem check.  It has eaten itself pretty throughly, and will likely be down for a while while I reconstruct the bits.
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> For those of you depending on this for critical services, don't.  ever.  GTlib is not a production service.
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> keith

Thanks for the update. I 99% of the time pull from GTLib when doing a
CentOS netinstall (only URLs I remember!).

An experience to share, I remember when I was at the Klaus building
for a meeting and downloaded a 3.9GB iso of Ubuntu in around 6 minutes
from the GTLib. Pretty sweet.

David



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