[Halld-offline] reboot the work disk server: objections?

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

The work disk was rebooted this morning, after some exploratory sys 
admin work, and is back in operation.

Preliminary indications are that the file locking problem is much 
better, if not actually eliminated. Operations that would fail reliably 
yesterday are succeeding today, in particular one of Thomas's workflows 
that uses sqlilte CCDB from work and Simon's Subversion operations on 
the disk.

So, so far so good...we'll see if the good behavior holds.

Thanks for putting up with any inconvenience this might have caused.

   -- Mark

On 12/16/19 9:41 AM, Mark Ito wrote:
> Folks,
>
> There is a tentative plan to reboot the work disk server tomorrow 
> morning (Tue. 7 am) to diagnose the file locking problems we have been 
> having. Something clearly needs to done on this and this would be the 
> first step. This would make /work/halld and /work/halld2 unavailable 
> for an hour or so. This impacts a lot of us. It affects all four halls 
> as well. If you have objections to this schedule please let me know, 
> sooner than later, say by noon today.
>
> Sorry for the late notice, but we want to do this early in the week if 
> at all given the Holiday Shutdown coming up.
>
>   -- Mark
>
>