[Labs-announce] NFS /data/scratch and /data/public maintenance on 9/31

[Chase Pettet]

Apologies: /data/public and /data/scratch maintenance is on *8/31* (August).

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Chase Pettet <cpettet at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> TLDR:  /data/scratch and /data/public require maintenance on 9/31 with an
> accompanied short period of unavailability
>
> The Labs team is working towards more storage redundancy and stability.
> As part of this work, we will be shifting around storage and
> require a small number of maintenance windows within the coming weeks.  On
> Wednesday 9/31, the first of these is necessary in order to migrate the
> 'scratch' share.  This common NFS share is primarily used for adhoc and
> short term operations that require large amounts of temporary space.
> Information stored on /data/scratch should always be considered ephemeral,
> but we will do our best to keep everything intact.
>
> /data/public is commonly used to access our shared copy of
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ via NFS.  The server that hosts
> /public/dumps requires an update and so this share will also be unavailable
> for a short time within the same maintenance period.
>
> As always, for any question or concerns find us on IRC at #wikimedia-labs.
>
> Chase Pettet (on behalf of the Labs Team)
>
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