[tech] meito (the new fileserver)

James Andrewartha trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Aug 29 12:08:12 WST 2002


On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Nick Bannon wrote:

> James Andrewartha wrote:
> > The new filserver is up and running, with 75gig of RAID 1 storage under
> [...]
> > We also need to work out a policy on how to manage /space. One suggestion
> > is to have home directories for mounting under XP using samba. I'm just
> > moving the sgi freeware respositry from mussel to meito atm.
> [...]
> 
> As a first step, I think it'd be a good idea to move the contents of
> morwong:/services onto it. /space is a random name we've used to put
> spare local space on a machine - exporting /space to other machines
> gets confusing. (e.g. where should we mount meito:/space on mussel,
> other than the current /mnt/tmp ? ::-) ) Meito can then have the CNAME
> of "services.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" .

Sounds like a plan. It also makes room for /home to be expanded into (it's
looking rather full atm, see /home/used.sorted for the worst offenders).
What's the best method to move it across, preserving symlinks etc (I can
never remember)? Should morwong remain the TFTP server, or should meito
fullfill that role?

> BTW - was it previously using poobrown's IP? morwong's a bit unhappy
> about that ;

Yes, it was.

> morwong: ~>df -k
> NFS3 server poobrown not responding still trying
> 
> Where was it mounted? Can we umount -f it, or move it back temporarily?

Uh ... /mnt/temp IIRC. I've umount -f'ed it.

morwong's console is still getting "svcktcp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
rfs_dispatch: sendreply failed IP address 130.95.13.22" (meito) - NFS v3
problems perhaps? I can't actually tell what NFS version is being used.

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