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

Madhumitha Viswanathan mviswanathan at wikimedia.org
Wed Aug 31 21:20:28 UTC 2016


This is all done now :)

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
mviswanathan at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This maintenance will start at 16:30 UTC.
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Chase Pettet <cpettet at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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> --
> --Madhu :)
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--Madhu :)
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