[Snic-users] Change to the Triolith, Matter and Kappa /home file system

[Mats Kronberg]

This change has now been completed. Performance on /home should now be back
to normal (or even better than before).

//Mats


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Mats Kronberg <kronberg at nsc.liu.se> wrote:

> Dear Triolith, Matter and Kappa users,
>
> Today NSC will reconfigure the /home file system for better
> performance and redundancy.
>
> You might notice this change in two different ways:
>
> 1: For greater redundancy, files on /home will be replicated on disk,
> and will use twice as much disk space as before. Commands like "df"
> and "du" will show this. Commands that reports the file size (e.g "ls
> -l") will still report the actual file size. To compensate for this,
> all disk quotas for /home will be doubled.
>
> 2: Performance on /home will be reduced while we move the data to new
> disks. We estimate that this will take between a few hours and two
> days. During this time, the output from "df", "du", "nscquota" may be
> unreliable.
>
> We will send out an email when all changes are done.
>
>
> --
> Mats Kronberg, NSC Support <support at nsc.liu.se>
>
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