[Labs-l] NFS server hardware swap this Thu Oct 10

[Antoine Musso]

Le 07/10/13 15:10, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> As will come as no surprise to anyone, we have had difficulties with the
> stability of the hardware of the Lab's NFS server for some time.
> 
> In an effort to fix that service, we will be switching the hardware
> underlying that service to new hardware this week (2013-10-10) at 18:00
> UTC (14:00 ETD / 11:00 PDT).
> 
> The switch proper should only cause a brief (~10m) outage but since the
> switch requires a rebuilding of the filesystem it means that services
> using NFS will need to be restarted at its conclusion.
> 
> For Tool Labs this means that continuous services will be restarted and
> cron job suspended during the outage, but will resume automatically at
> the conclusion.  Non-continuous jobs will not be restarted automatically.

Bonjour Marc,

I will attempt to be online during that maintenance window to make sure
the beta cluster resumes operations properly :-)

Thank you for the maintenance!

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso