[Labs-l] Filesystem problems

Antoine Musso hashar+wmf at free.fr
Mon Jul 1 19:15:01 UTC 2013


Le 01/07/13 16:39, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit :
> A quick status update,
> 
> So, we've had issues with the filesystem underlying the NFS server.
> Most of those seem to be invisible to endusers, and the cause is still
> currently uncertain.
> 
> What I am doing at the moment is making a manual mirror of the
> xfs-backed filesystem onto an ext4 partition, to see if that is where
> the issue lies.  For the most part, this will not affect Labs NFS users
> except for a possible loss of performance.
> 
> At some point early this week, I will switch the two filesystems.  This
> will cause a pause in file IO that should not last more than a few
> minutes (I will post an advance warning once I know the exact time).  At
> the very least, this will allow us to isolate the problem and help
> figure out exactly what is going on.

Beta has been more or less down for a couple hours while this happened.
It is all back up now :-)


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Antoine "hashar" Musso




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