[lm-announce] IMPORTANT: LMF file servers

[Jonathan Buzzard]

Following a hardware failure of one of the file servers at the beginning of the month, we need to reboot all the servers to update the firmware. This will be done during the at risk period (07:00-09:00) tomorrow Tuesday November 10th.

Because we are now running successfully on the clustered version of the software, the service will be available through out. NFS users will see absolutely no disruption whatsoever. SMB/Samba users might experience an error message at the instance one of the servers is turned off if they are reading or  writing a file at exactly that time. If they retry it will succeed.


JAB.



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Jonathan A. Buzzard                      Tel: +441382-386998
Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee, DD1 5EH

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