[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia unscheduled downtime

[Brion Vibber]

The server was down for almost a full day, apparently thanks to a crash
which involved a slight bit of filesystem corruption which it couldn't
_quite_ recover from on bootup without a human coming in and saying
"yes, repair that sector".

I love computers. :)

Huge thanks to Jason Richey, who drove in to the hosting center to beat
up on the server in person tonight.

The server is back up; I've locked the wiki while double-checking the
database tables for corruption.

Messages to the mailing lists sent in the last day should come through,
but some may take a while to get resent from intermediate mail servers.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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