On 1/29/06, Ian Eslick eslick@csail.mit.edu wrote:

I logged in and looked around and this appears to be due to an error of some kind that forced common-lisp.net to remount-ro the '/' and '/var' filesystems. I thought you should know in case you haven't heard about this from someone else yet as it probably effects all common-lisp.net projects.

Thanks for the notification. We are currently experiencing severe problems with our colo provider:

It seems that our hosting provider's colo provider is completely incompetent. We're now on our third downtime in one week and have made the obvious decision to move to another colocation facility. I'm sorry about all the downtime and inconveniences. My hosting provider (Tech Co-op) tells me they will try and move us into a new colo some time next week. In the mean time, I'm terribly sorry to have to provide such an unreliable service and hope the users will bear with us until we have this resolved.

This basically means they will flip the wrong breaker, etc and when they do that it seems we may also have run into a bug with Xen (virtual machine software) and the RAID drivers we are using which results in file systems being mounted read-only on bootup after a hard shutdown. Hopefully this won't be the norm until we switch to a better colo provider and address any bugs in Xen.

Though do let me know if there are other problems of which I'm not aware.

Thanks, Erik.