Our old central workhorse server Zwinger developed disk errors tonight and is
now offline awaiting repair or replacement.
The only user-visible disruption that I'm aware of is that our Ganglia
load-reporting graphs are temporarily offline. DNS failover appears to have
worked fine, and another server has been pulled over for that duty.
Though various services have been spun off over time, Zwinger's been a central
part of our cluster for nearly two and a half years. Let's all wish him luck for
his surgery.
(Zwinger was named for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Zwinger )
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)