Filesystem Hiccup
- Posted by John Bazik
- on Dec. 20, 2016
At around 9:30 this evening, one of our NFS fileservers failed in a way that caused all file services to become unavailable. Tstaffers restored the filesystem within the hour.
At around 9:30 this evening, one of our NFS fileservers failed in a way that caused all file services to become unavailable. Tstaffers restored the filesystem within the hour.
Starting Thursday, December 22, 2016, filesystem backups will be retained for only six months. Currently they are kept for forever. At the same time, files will be backed up more frequently (as often as hourly) rather than just once a day.This change is part of our migration to CIS file services. …
It was an interesting start to a Wednesday morning...As you're probably already aware, there was a short blip in connectivity/functionality this morning that blocked our SSH gateway, logins and general use of the department's systems. Our GPFS file system was overwhelmed, which resulted in a kind of traffic jam of …