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

Madhumitha Viswanathan mviswanathan at wikimedia.org
Wed Sep 7 17:37:27 UTC 2016


This is all done now - scratch and dumps should be available across labs
and tools. Let us know if you run into any issues on #wikimedia-labs.

Best,

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
mviswanathan at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We will do part of the maintenance that was incomplete last week on the
> server that hosts /data/scratch and /data/public tomorrow. It is scheduled
> for 16:30 UTC, tomorrow 9/7 - scratch and dumps will be unavailable for a
> short time during the maintenance window.
>
> I'll update the lists when we are all done.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
> mviswanathan at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Oops, sent too soon. The scratch migration part of the maintenance is all
>> complete. We've rescheduled a small part of the maintenance for next week,
>> that we couldn't get to today.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
>> mviswanathan at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>> --Madhu :)
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