[Labs-l] **REMINDER** NFS server hardware swap this Thu Oct 10
Marc-André Pelletier
mpelletier at wikimedia.org
Thu Oct 10 17:15:52 UTC 2013
As a reminder, this planned outage is slated to start 45 minutes from
now. The duration may vary depending on how much updated data needs to
be copied but should last between 10 and 30 minutes.
-- Marc
On 10/07/2013 09:10 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> 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.
>
> -- Marc
>
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