Pliny, which has been serving up en.wikipedia.org for the last few days, has been exhibiting disk problems again. This tends to point to problems in the controller or motherboard rather or in addition to the drive, since we just replaced the previous aching drive with a shiny new one.
en.wikipedia.org and boards.wikimedia.org have been moved for now back to ursula along with the other languages. Since en makes up a lot of the traffic by itself this is less than ideal; sometimes a surge on en will briefly block out most access to other wikis, for instance. Hopefully we can work something out on this soon with another machine standing in.
Uploaded images from en are current on ursula up through January 24, but newer updates are still on pliny and can't be copied off due to the disk errors. If we can't coax it into cooperating remotely, Jason should be able to reset things when he goes in on Friday and copy them off then.
We're continuing to optimize the database configuration and smooth out the hot spots, and sooner or later those new machines should arrive and we can balance the load more cleanly..
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)