there is nothing wrong in this whole wide world

rt.fm and my website were down for a few hours this evening while i upgraded the server, quadruple.

the drive that holds the /mirror partition for rt.fm's openbsd anoncvs and ftp data was a seagate cheetah 73gb 10k rpm u320 scsi drive and could only hold the cvs tree, the current release, and the current set of snapshots. since 4.0 is making its way to second-level mirrors and the increasing release/snapshot size no longer allows me to juggle data between both drives on the server until release day, i had to get a new drive.

yesterday, i bought a new seagate cheetah 146gb 10k rpm drive and installed it this evening. since the 1u server only has two drive bays, i wasn't able to copy the data while online. so i removed the system drive, installed the new data drive alongside the old data drive, and pxeboot'ed a bsd.rd image off of my laptop (you do keep a recent bsd.rd image in / on your systems, right?) to copy data between the o/s-less data drives. watching 50 gigs worth of data copy while standing in a datacenter for hours is not very fun at all.

everything is back online now and the rest of 4.0 is trickling down from canada. rt.fm should be able to hold at least 2 or 3 releases now.