[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] evodev:
I know what forum I am using mods. This is a major ONLINE development that is crucial to get development work to users, and we need to fix it. Move if you need to, but I think it will be more useful in the development thread. also if this is fixed soon, developers reupload, or something similar, please move it to general then, or delete it. im trying to help all rom flashers on our device.

okay for those of you who dont know, goo.im has been constantly going down lately. that means no file downloads. This happened because they are upgrading their servers, and this has been causing problems. heres the biggest problem (taken from their blog, would link, but it might be down any minute):

The Ugly:

We had an issue with our Lustre cluster. Ours is laid out with a metadata server, and two object storage targets/servers (OSTs, or basically, file servers). You can think of the metadata server (MDS) as like the MBR or index of a hard drive; the MDS lists where every file is on the OSTs and contains metadata and if it gets wiped out, recovery of data is nigh-impossible. As it turns out, when the new OST was brought online, it caused a race in the MDS, where it thought the new OST was the old, and that all data was missing... And started wiping out the data. By the time everything was over, the cluster was up and running normally, but all the metadata was gone. Because of that, all of the files were inaccessible.

To give you an idea, imagine trying to find a specific quote from a certain page in a particular book inside all of the libraries of the world, but with no librarians, no index cards, no computer index, nothing. Just you and endless rows of books. That's what it would be like to try and pull out a ZIP from almost a dozen terabytes of storage space. On top of that, we did not have the means nor budget to have a backup system for all of the data that was hosted. Don't worry, we have already budgeted for a backup system, and will be implementing it likely in the next round of upgrades or sooner to prevent just such an issue in the future. Unlike some folks, we learn from our mistakes.

We were able to restore a backup of the site itself, as well as all developer and sponsor accounts, as well as the GApps. We're working with developers to help them get their data re-uploaded from mirrors, and all developers can now resume uploading and restoring their data. However, some folders such as /stock we do not have any backups for. We will try and find as many files as we can and restore them from around the web, but it will take a while and it's likely that we will not be able to restore all of them.

The buildbox at the very least was untouched, so no data is missing from it, and developers can continue to use it normally. On top of that, this has given us a chance for a clean start, wiping out old, unused files and letting us completely reorganize with all developers located under the /devs folder and all of them having full compatibility with GooManager from now on so long as they make their ROM compatible.

We apologize for the disruption this data loss has caused. We had picked lustre specifically because it was designed to be very reliable and provide high throughput to all of our distribution servers. Despite this setback, Goo.im will continue to operate, and we will work to restore what we can.

in summary for those who dont want to read it: THE SERVER GLITCHED UP AND DELETED ALL FILES ON IT. that means all the roms hosted only on goo are now inaccessible, which is at least all CM9 and CM10 builds for our beloved nook tablet, and millions of others. that means unless a user uploads it, or the developer reuploads it, we cannot get roms!

so lets get a fix out for us nook tablet users: lets share the files, and get them back online. The problem is some developers don't allow mirrors. so lets figure out which devs will let us mirror, and then mirror (with credits). I have the latest CM9, and CM10 builds, and the Jandycane rom. I will upload as soon I found out I wont make any devs angry, but some people dont like parts of the latest versions, and use an older version I dont have. So this development is to get all versions of all goo only based roms into one place so we can mirror them all. I can put them on dropbox, dev-host, and goo (while its up), so if you have the file, and know if we can mirror it, comment below, and lets fix this.