What happened to Head-fi?

[nickknutson]

I know most of you guys don't care, but I was wondering if anyone knows why head-fi is down and when it might be up?

[The Monkey]

It has a long way to go. EDITED for unhelpful link.

[hYdrociTy]

Monkey I don't think nicknutson can access that

[n_maher]

Nick,

Since you can't read that thread, the long and short of it is massive database issues. Doesn't sound like there will be any news until late tomorrow at the absolute earliest.

[nickknutson]

Why can't I access it?

[The Monkey]

Monkey I don't think nicknutson can access that

lol, the first rule of head-case.... And I've only had 2 beers.

Sorry, Nick, what Nate said.

[nickknutson]

lol, the first rule of head-case.... And I've only had 2 beers.

Sorry, Nick, what Nate said.

What's the first rule of head-case?

[aerius]

What's the first rule of head-case?

There is no head-case.

[n_maher]

What's the first rule of head-case?

There is no spoon.

Stick around for a while nick, you'll find out.

[nickknutson]

There is no spoon.

Stick around for a while nick, you'll find out.

This forum is completely fucked up...and I like it! But I still don't get it...I'm sure I will eventually.

[The Monkey]

This forum is completely fucked up...and I like it! But I still don't get it...I'm sure I will eventually.

Nick, here's what Jude posted on the Head-Fi Facebook Group page:

Here's a status update (which I will also post on the error screen for those who visit http://www.head-fi.org):

This is obviously our worst outage in the history of Head-Fi.org. What happened was that we had Head-Fi.org's files and backups moved to a multi-terabyte network attached storage (NAS) unit while we continued to work on the proper implementation of a true clustering configuration for Head-Fi.org. From what we can tell, this particular NAS unit--with a reputation for being ultra-reliable--had one of its 12-channel RAID controllers malfunction.

This particular NAS unit is a 24-drive unit, made up of two 12-drive arrays, each array with two parity drives (RAID 6). Maybe we put too much faith in it, but we thought were safe housing everything on it for the time being (the last several months). From what we're being told, when the controller card malfunctioned, it messed up the NAS unit's logical volume, which is where we're at now. We are working closely with the vendor and the technical support team in Europe to restore the logical volume and get the NAS back up again. We feel reasonably confident we will be able to restore Head-Fi to its state just before its outage, but won't know for sure if we'll have to fall back to a back-up, of which there are several on the NAS. Unfortunately, the only off-NAS backups we have of Head-Fi.org's databases are quite old, meaning we'd lose thousands of posts, so I will not put Head-Fi.org back up until we know for sure the status of the logical volume restoration.

All I can do is apologize for this very extended outage, and for not having more recent off-NAS backups. Again, we hope to have the site back up and running fully tomorrow evening, but I will keep you up to date if that changes.

The repair was well under way today when the repair process ran out of RAM (the NAS had four gigabytes of RAM). Since, for a number of reasons, the repair process was being run almost entirely from RAM, the four gigs was apparently not enough). I have ordered 16 gigabytes of RAM, which will arrive tomorrow before noon EST, whereupon the team in Europe can commence with the remotely administered repair process(es). The process has gone slower than we anticipated, and running out of RAM today was an unfortunate setback. But, once again, 16 gigabytes of RAM (in the form of eight DDR2, ECC registered 2GB cards--versus the four 1-gigabyte cards in there now) should be arriving in the morning. whereupon we call our friends in Europe and they finish the repair work. We already know some data was lost, but hope and pray that what we do retrieve will be enough to let us get the site back up tomorrow evening.

We know we should have been more diligent about keeping more backups off the NAS, but running two 12-drive arrays, each array in RAID 6 (two parity drives, for a total of four)--and the fact that our previous NAS units ran without problems for seven years--we felt we were safe in keeping them there until we were finally through with the proper clustering we've intended for months. All I can do is apologize for this very extended outage, and for not having more recent off-NAS backups. Again, we hope to have the site back up and running fully tomorrow evening, but I will keep you up to date if that changes.

[nickknutson]

Thanks Monkey.

[fierce_freak]

Shitty...thanks for the update.

[granodemostasa]

so does this mean that if we're lucky we can take the forum back to the "good ol days?" (circa...whenever you first joined)

[kamal007]

im missing head-fi :'( :'( :'(

[Edwood]

The Photo Gallery Database better not be fucked up again.

Wow, makes it feel like old times at Headwize...

[n_maher]

The Photo Gallery Database better not be fucked up again.

Wow, makes it feel like old times at Headwize...

Shit, I hadn't thought about that. What a fricken nightmare.

[nickknutson]

The Photo Gallery Database better not be fucked up again.

Wow, makes it feel like old times at Headwize...

Photo Gallery?

[n_maher]

Photo Gallery?

Contributors get varying levels of photo hosting space.

[nickknutson]

Contributors get varying levels of photo hosting space.

I'm a contributor. I never knew about this feature. I just used photobucket.

[grawk]

I'm a contributor. I never knew about this feature. I just used photobucket.

Apparently that's the right choice

I quit using head-fi photo space after the last debacle.

[mjg]

here's head-cases chance to take over headphone world and be super awesome like head-fi did. are u gonna do it guys? as soon as next week u can have 300 sponsors, and start moderating me and stuff... i know it's a great potential.... what do u think?

[Duggeh]

I've always use my own webspace for photos because I didn't like the idea of trusting the hosting to a 3rd party and then having to pay to continue using it to keep links running. The other advantage is that because a mate of mine runs the hosting company if anythign goes wrong hes about 1 text or IRC pm away.

[Bigguy]

There is supposed to be a Bay Area meet this saturday. I hope Head-fi is back up soon so I can get the info for saturday. Anybody here going to it? "You don't what you've got till it's gone".

[bhd812]

The last week before a meet is the craziest! Thank god I got the myspace page and facebook for the Chi Event this weekend, no better yet thank god I saved the updated lists!!!

I feel bad for anyone who did not do the same and if hf comes back with old posts..eekk!!

i think there is a Seattle meet going on or was it Washington? not sure..something else is going on on the 17th i know.

then again i have Faith in the HF crew to bring the site back up soon and back up to what it was so no need to worry, i need to keep telling myself that...