[volunteergrid2-l] Status of IF3-1

[Brad Rupp]

I thought I should send out an update on the ongoing saga of my node, 
if3-1.  Whatever caused the black smoke to come out of my computer also 
took out the mother board and the drives I had the Tahoe data stored on. 
  I found out about the mother board rather quickly.  The new server 
came in while I was on a business trip.  When I got home from the 
business trip I found out about the dead drives.

Long story short, the computer is setup and powered on but I am waiting 
for the new drives for the Tahoe data store to come in.  I hope they 
will be here in the next day or two.

Because the drives that hosted the Tahoe data were fried, I lost all of 
the Tahoe data hosted on my node.  You will need to rebuild your shares 
as my server will not have any of your data when I install the new 
drives.  Question on this: do I need to change my furl to aid in 
rebuilding your shares?

I guess the good news in all of this is that this is great validation 
for Tahoe.  RAID didn't save my data.  Tahoe would have if I was 
actively using it.  Major bummer due to my procrastination.

Anyway, I will let you know when the Tahoe shares are online.  Thanks 
for your patience.

Brad