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

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:49:25PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> 
> (if so, how often? and are you going to restore items for anyone who
> asks? how often? would your answers change if it all fit on one tape
> and you could just let it run overnight? ...)

In response to your questions:

(1) Weekly
(2) No. Only if they beg, plead and offer me money. In other words, 
    the same ordeal people normally have to go through to get help
	 from a wheel member.
(3) Not really. It's unlikely we can get user's home areas down to 
    2Gb! I do think we should play with the quota support under 
	 AdvFS. Perhaps cap user's home directories at 50Mb, and they 
	 have to use a scratch area to exceed that. Send them email 
	 if they exceed 30Mb.

Tommorow I'll be pulling out mussel's 9Gb and (after a last check 
for valuable data nobody has moved) I'll nuke it and create an 
LSM enabled AdvFS filesystem. I'm not sure of the best way to 
do the actual transfer, so I'll wait until another wheel member 
is around to discuss it with.

So my goal is to have us ready for the transfer of /home and 
/services by tommorow afternoon.

By the way, sorry for the up/down-ness on mussel today. I was 
attempting to get the 4Gb drive as the root fs, but something 
went wrong with the first dump-restore. Seemed to work the 
second time, though. Thanks to Anil for the help making the box 
boot again!

Maybe I'll do some Uni work at some time, too -grin-

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Grahame Bowland                             gbowland at ucc.asn.au
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