It's great to see the site back up Rodney. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to do this!
Glad to be back up!
In early April, I was working on a routine site mirror script. Suffice it to say the following:
- Use of the "delete" keyword with certain utilities, particularly during recursive processing, is indeed every bit as dangerous as the man page may indicate
- Turning off safeguards against this generally makes you either a genius or an idiot (in this case, the latter)
- You can remove inodes really, REALLY fast
I realized what had happened (read: a recursive delete of the /opt tree on my router with no backup) about a quarter second after it started. Thus, a lot of content was saved...but all of the precious hand-tuned configurations in /opt/etc for every single app on my router were gone forever.
I was angry at myself and sickened enough by the event to have no interest whatsoever in even attempting to recover for several months (after doing many exhaustive orphaned inode scans and the like trying to get back anything I could). When I did have some interest in actually piecing everything back together, I noted that development on TomatoUSB had halted rather abruptly (ironically, around the same time I nuked my drive, though at the time I didn't know what was happening with Fedor), so I figured that phase of my technical life had passed and I moved on (largely to Android on tablets).
Recently, I started a new job (after 5 years with my previous), and water-cooler conversation led to some of my adventures with Tomato, which made me curious. I noticed that things had indeed slowed dramatically, and that there was a good bit of splintering, but it looked like Fedor had at least poked his head in once or twice in git without syncing upstream. Figuring enough time had passed and having reasons of my own to at least get a web presence up and running again, I spent about a week assembling enough to get things back online securely and tested.
I'm really quite busy at the new job, so I can't guarantee anything approaching the frequency of updates I was doing before, but I do hope to at least keep the site up and stable and at least infrequently updated. People remain welcome to mirror it if they like, but please only mirror the binaries (conveniently already in gzipped tar form), since the entire tree now takes up a staggering 3.6 gigabytes (and that's with proper softlinks, which are exposed through the web and FTP interfaces as regular files when mirrored)!
Hoping all is well with you and yours,
Rodney
