> Hey All,
>
> Just a heads up the box is back up. There's a few sundry items that
> still need to be dealt with and there might still be another reboot in
> the next couple of days but I'll send a separate e-mail if/when that has
> to occur.
>
> All in all things look good, and for the most part it went smoothly
> (well other than the typical disaster that grub throws at me).
>
> If you see anything amiss, please give me a holler or e-mail
>
ftpadmin@kernel.org with details.
>
> Again thanks to Google and HP, specifically Chris DiBona and Bdale
> Garbee, for the new box. It is very nice. If you get a chance cat
> /proc/meminfo or cat /proc/cpuinfo - you won't be disappointed.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>
> On 11/01/2010 01:37 PM, J.H. wrote:
>> 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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