[9fans] replacing sources

[9fans] replacing sources

[geoff]

I plan to replace sources with haggis (which will take the name
sources) during the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 8th.  I will take a
final dump of sources, shut it down, change the dns, initialise
haggis's sources fossil from source's final dump score, and bring
haggis up as the new sources.  This should yield a newer and more
reliable sources machine that is also a little easier to administer.

Re: [9fans] replacing sources

[Francisco J Ballesteros]

Thanks a lot for maintaining it
and for all the burden.


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:12 PM, <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> I plan to replace sources with haggis (which will take the name
> sources) during the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 8th.  I will take a
> final dump of sources, shut it down, change the dns, initialise
> haggis's sources fossil from source's final dump score, and bring
> haggis up as the new sources.  This should yield a newer and more
> reliable sources machine that is also a little easier to administer.
>
>

Re: [9fans] replacing sources

[erik quanstrom]

On Thu Sep  3 17:25:58 EDT 2009, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> Thanks a lot for maintaining it
> and for all the burden.

i second that.

- erik

Re: [9fans] replacing sources

[Venkatesh Srinivas]

Thanks!

How long has the current sources server been running?

-- vs

Re: [9fans] replacing sources

[geoff]

The current sources server hasn't been in service for very long.
It's about the third one that I know of, and there may have
been others.  In the past, we just replaced the machines, as
they died or became unreliable, with other machines that we
already had.  Haggis is a new machine and it's using a fossil
partition on our Coraid array (with archival storage in our
venti store) instead of local disks, so it should be less prone
to failure.