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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:37:04 -0700
From: "J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [KORG] Master / hera upgrade & downtime	announcement
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Hey All,

Just a heads up I'm running a little behind but should be starting shortly.

- - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Chief Kernel.org Administrator

On 10/29/2010 01:40 PM, J.H. wrote:
> Afternoon Everyone,
> 
> Thought I'd give everyone a quick heads up, that since Kernel Summit
> starts on the 1st of November, which means I've got my one chance to do
> system maintenance on master / hera for the year.
> 
> I'm expecting to do the upgrade on the 1st itself, likely start time
> will be around Mon Nov  1 19:00:00 UTC 2010, and I'm hoping for the
> entire downtime to take no longer than 2 hours.
> 
> Things that are going to happen during the upgrade:
> 
> 	- OS getting upgraded to Fedora 13
> 		w/ custom kernel to solve XFS and disable IMA
> 	- Hardware change
> 		Google and HP have been very generous enough to
> 		get us a new machine for the master / hera machine.
> 		The new machine is a dual, quad core Xeon X5550 box
> 		with 32G of ram.  Beyond that it nearly identical to the
> 		current machine.
> 
> 		The current machine will become a 'live' backup machine
> 		that will sync semi-continuously, and be available
> 		should catastrophic failure of master / hera occur.
> 
> Think that's the main big changes.  I'm already working on the upgrade
> since I have multiple boxes to do this with, and things are looking good
> so far.
> 
> As a note the start time is estimated, if there is a major change to the
> start time I will let everyone know.
> 
> As always, if you have questions, comments or concerns please e-mail me
> or ftpadmin@kernel.org
> 
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> Chief Kernel.org Administrator

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