Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:37:04 -0700 | From | "J.H." <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master / hera upgrade & downtime announcement |
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Hey All,
Just a heads up I'm running a little behind but should be starting shortly.
- - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Chief Kernel.org Administrator
On 10/29/2010 01:40 PM, J.H. wrote: > Afternoon Everyone, > > Thought I'd give everyone a quick heads up, that since Kernel Summit > starts on the 1st of November, which means I've got my one chance to do > system maintenance on master / hera for the year. > > I'm expecting to do the upgrade on the 1st itself, likely start time > will be around Mon Nov 1 19:00:00 UTC 2010, and I'm hoping for the > entire downtime to take no longer than 2 hours. > > Things that are going to happen during the upgrade: > > - OS getting upgraded to Fedora 13 > w/ custom kernel to solve XFS and disable IMA > - Hardware change > Google and HP have been very generous enough to > get us a new machine for the master / hera machine. > The new machine is a dual, quad core Xeon X5550 box > with 32G of ram. Beyond that it nearly identical to the > current machine. > > The current machine will become a 'live' backup machine > that will sync semi-continuously, and be available > should catastrophic failure of master / hera occur. > > Think that's the main big changes. I'm already working on the upgrade > since I have multiple boxes to do this with, and things are looking good > so far. > > As a note the start time is estimated, if there is a major change to the > start time I will let everyone know. > > As always, if you have questions, comments or concerns please e-mail me > or ftpadmin@kernel.org > > - John 'Warthog9' Hawley > Chief Kernel.org Administrator
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