Hmm, was this forgotten? I don't see anything in the Server admin log on Wikitech, and I can still write to the /home directory.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > A few weeks ago I changed the /home mount to be a direct, rather than > an indirect, automount, which means that all of /home is mounted > rather than directories for each user. I did this in anticipation of > switching to glustefs for homedirs, but specifically I did it in > anticipation of enabling pam_mkhomedir. Today I enabled pam_mkhomedir. > So, if you log into an instance and your home directory didn't already > exist in the project, the instance will create it automatically. > > This is one step towards getting rid of the centralized NFS instance, > which is really small, causes us performance issues, and often fills > up, causing lots of annoying issues. > > Tuesday night (Oct 30) I'll switch the home directories over to > glusterfs storage, rather than the centralized home directories. This > isn't an easy switch. I'm going to take the following steps: > > 1. Change the NFS home directories to be read-only > 2. Copy each project's data to its private gluster share > 3. Change the autofs information in LDAP to point the /home mount to > the private gluster share > > After doing so, instances will need to be rebooted to use the new > mount. Until your instance is rebooted your home directories will be > read-only. After all instances are switched off of NFS, I'm going to > delete the NFS instance. > > - Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- Regards, Hydriz We've created the greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://donate.wikimedia.org
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