Well, it has been a struggle, yet it is all over, almost.
For a few days now the FIRST FEDORA MIRROR IN CHINA has been online. Proudly sponsored by CANDIS and urged on by the Beijing Linux Users Group.
There are still some tweaks to happen and more data sets to be added over time, but [...]
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Sep10th2007
First Official Fedora Mirror in China Online!
Published by September 10th, 2007 in China and FOSS/GNU/Linux. 0 CommentsSep1st2007
I knew the config files were different between 7.4 and 8.1 and that some items merely changed names and some were deprecated.
I used this excellent resource before.
Even the very rudimentary tweaks I did, and with a RAID array that is in a 90% rebuild rate, background initialisation, this 8.1 version is FAST! I have [...]
Sep1st2007
Well, the PostgreSQL upgrade was a snap, sorta. I needed to do a full dump and restore as this was a major version change – no surprises there. What pissed me off though, is that when using the binary data type for dump files when using pg_dump (“-T c”) the resulting backup file [...]
Sep1st2007
Well this week was fun. For some reason one of our main clusters that runs client ASP software for general office, file, email, collaboration, etc… went crazy.
First I noticed that the usual night time “Vacuum’s” that are needed to keep the PostgreSQL planar at it’s most efficient and indexes clean, was running right into [...]
Aug28th2007
Well, it seems only appropriate that with Linux World China being next week and all, that Red Hat are going to get some LTO2 tapes shipped. I didn’t even check on my status today, but I was hovering around ~77GB. 540 odd GB to go!
I would like to pull from Japan, but they [...]
Aug19th2007
Well, I lost track of time. However long it has been, I am now at 44GB! Only a couple hundred left to go.
Why Red Hat? Why are your core mirrors so piss weak in China compared to other distros?
Aug14th2007
Well, something around 96 hours and we have ~24 GB.
As Colonel Slade would quip; “Hoo ha!”
</Sarcasm>
Aug12th2007
Well, it has been about 56 hours and we have ~18GB…….as long as China doesn’t run out of electricity, or myself of years on this planet. Then it will eventually complete…….eventually.
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