(cache)Kernel archive /pub tree restoring [LWN.net]

A few astute observers have noticed that some content on kernel.org had disappeared and were understandably concerned. Konstantin Ryabitsev has provided an update via social.kernel.org:

There was an unfortunate error while changing the kernel.org primary/secondary mirroring infrastructure, which resulted in the /pub tree suddenly becoming empty. No data was lost, just public mirror copies. Everything is now being restored, but deletes are fast and restores are slow, so thank you for your patience!

The incident is being tracked on the Linux Foundation's IT status page.

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Posted Jul 2, 2026 19:21 UTC (Thu) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457) [Link] (3 responses)

This broke Fedora's openQA browser tests, because we needed *something* to act as a reliable source of file downloads so we can test file downloads work, and years ago I figured "hey, kernel.org should be pretty solid".

...until now it was!

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Posted Jul 2, 2026 20:37 UTC (Thu) by KaiXin (guest, #184896) [Link] (1 responses)

Probably should have use https://fedoraproject.org/ or https://www.redhat.com/ instead 😂

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Posted Jul 2, 2026 22:01 UTC (Thu) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457) [Link]

oh heck no, those fall over all the time ;)

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Posted Jul 3, 2026 13:20 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

>This broke Fedora's openQA browser tests, because we needed *something* to act as a reliable source of file downloads

Just have the OpenQA job spin up a locally running HTTP server and exercise that for the browser test?