[tech] Re: [ucc-announce] (Downtime) Sunday

[David Manchester]

> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:01:58AM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> > Can someone remind me why we need 4G for /services?
> 
> Can someone remind me why we need 6G for /home, let alone more? It just
> makes it even harder to organise some kind of a backup give that UCC's
> handiest tape drive is only 2G.

I suspect you're attempting to be facetious - if you think that the UCC's
users won't riot if we were to reduce /home to 2GB, then I want to know
what you're smoking. 
We should be able to install Legato Networker when UCS avail us of the
Layered Products Kit, giving users pointy-clicky backup capability &
wheel some experiance with a package that they might be called upon to
use in the wild.

> <shrug> There's definitely stuff which can go (two copies of the Redhat
> 6.0 ISO image?) but it's also the only spot to put everything in the
> UCC that isn't machine specific, as it's the other NFS-exported area
> available on every machine.

Lose the ISOs.

Dunc - 4GB for /services is probably the right size - its got Web, FTP and coke
stuff. Its got useful source bits & as Nick pointed out - its a common area
across all the machines. 
I might even start building the UCC oracle on /services RSN.

Cheers
/dave
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