[Gimle-users] DONE: Short outage for /nobackup/smhid8 today (~ 14-15 CET)

[KentEngström]

kent at nsc.liu.se (Kent Engström) writes:
> Dear Users,
>
> There is a faulty battery/capacitor module in one of the disk
> servers (oss40) providing data storage for the /nobackup/smhid8 
> file system. It needs to be changed sooner rather than later,
> as running without cache can harm the file system performance.
>
> The service technician is en route and we have scheduled a downtime
> somewhere between 14.00 and 15.00 CET today. Hopefully, we will not
> use all of that time.
>
> During the downtime, accesses to the /nobackup/smhid8 filesystem may
> hang.
>
> We will update you when the service has been done.

The service was done between 14 and 15 today. The smhid8 file system is
up again.

(A disk failed during the service and has been replaced with a spare,
but the RAID rebuild is going on in the background as normal.)

-- 
Kent Engström, National Supercomputer Centre
kent at nsc.liu.se, +46 13 28 4444