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

[Madhumitha Viswanathan]

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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