> 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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