This slipped, unfortunately. I wasn't available at the time to do it. I was going to send an email this morning mentioning it.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Hydriz Wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
