[SAC] [Fwd: [support.osuosl.org #11303] OSGeos New Servers]

[Alex Mandel]

Quick follow-up, we could move everything to ext4 quickly (ie OSL can
update our base image and remake the current VMs in a matter of minutes)
If we want to use a kernel from backports that fixes known bugs in the
ext4 support.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-image-2.6-amd64

We should probably decide on this before embarking on work in the new
VMs, or could piecemeal upgrade any particular VM later.

Why ext4: (Anyone have con arguments?)
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

Thanks,
Alex


Alex Mandel wrote:
> Ok, 3 new servers are up and ready for login attempts(access info
> below). I have verified that I can login with ldap to Backup no problem.
> 
> There's not much written on
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Transition_Plan_2010#osgeo3_.26_osgeo4
> 
> for specifics of what's being setup on each other than the general
> ideas, so please document what you do.
> 
> One note, we had to go with ext3 instead of ext4 because the current
> Debian Stable kernels don't support ext4 well. We may want to consider a
> different version of Debian/Ubuntu for the download mirror later on to
> take advantage of the speed increase of ext4 (I've heard it rivals XFS)
> Luckily if a newer kernel becomes available migrating from ext3 to ext4
> is easy (We might want to keep this in mind for Backup).
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [support.osuosl.org #11303] OSGeos New Servers
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:49:08 +0000
> 
> On Mon Mar 29 16:40:18 2010, tech at wildintellect.com wrote:
>> So now we're ready for 3 Vms:
>> wiki.osgeo.org(aka Wiki)
>> secure.osgeo.org(aka Secure)
>> backup.osgeo.org(aka Backup)
> 
> All three of these should be online as $hostname.osgeo.osuosl.org.
> Please verify that everything looks ok. Don't freak out when you do a df
> on backup and it says 493G, trust me its 504G :)
> 
> Thanks-
>