Per discussion on irc - http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-labs/20121217.txt - home is being moved to a bigger storage, that solves all troubles
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > we should likely make symlink "bigdata -> /data/project/users/`whoami`" in > each $HOME in bots project automatically to prevent confusion though. Keep > in mind that labs are still kind of beta, or they were beta recently, if > there is anything broken, fix it! including documentation and help pages > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Your user is not sudoer on bots-1 because bots-1 is one of worst >> instances we have and people are discouraged from using it - as you can >> read in docs - >> https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Bots/Documentation#Servers- >> on other bots-N instances you are sudoer. On bots-nrN instances you >> aren't but each of them contains /mnt/share - local storage for anything. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ok, I don't get this discussion. My user is not a sudoer on bots-1, so >>> I cannot setup my own /data/projects directory. Obviously it is a >>> matter of convenience to just use the home directory. And this is a >>> common usage pattern on many hosting services (such as the >>> toolserver). It should be absolutely no surprise that this happens. >>> Daniel >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > ~ is a nice place for private data and configuration but production >>> > services, such as bots, should be on a different filesystem. I don't >>> think >>> > you installed all your applications on your personal computer to home >>> > folder. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: >>> >> > We're switching the home directories to gluster on Monday. That >>> said, >>> >> > it's recommended to not use /home even after the switch. >>> >> >>> >> The fact that you've so often had to remind people not to use ~/ >>> suggests >>> >> that it violates people's intuitions and expectations about UNIX >>> >> environments. That's certainly been my experience: I keep having to >>> remind >>> >> myself not to pile things up in ~/, which forces me to have to >>> rethink a lot >>> >> of things that have become practically muscle memory, like setting up >>> a >>> >> virtualenv under ~/ for various handy Python packages. >>> >> >>> >> Are the reasons for deprecating the use of ~/ for storage of personal >>> >> files fundamental to the architecture of labs? If not, I think it'd >>> be worth >>> >> reconsidering. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks as always for maintaining such a useful service. >>> >> >>> >> Ori >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> 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 >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Labs-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l >>> >> >> >
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