[Planetlab-users] deletion of slice content

[Mark Huang]

planetlab2.cs.northwestern.edu experienced a hard drive failure yesterday and 
the disks were replaced. pads23.cs.nthu.edu.tw was reinstalled and just put 
back into service on Tuesday after being down for 6 months. Did you lose data 
on this node between Tuesday and today, or data that was on the machine 6 
months ago?

Content may be lost on a node for a variety of reasons, some of which are 
beyond our control and some of which are simply hard to control: hardware 
failure, filesystem corruption, node compromise, disk space overflow. The AUP 
does give fair warning, that nodes should not be used for persistent or even 
reliable storage. With that said, we do try our best to save whatever is 
salvageable in these situations and notify users if anything was recovered.

--Mark
PlanetLab Operations