The migration is complete. Please let me know if you have any issues. On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:09 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At the infrastructure meeting today, we decided on a course of action > for migrating the existing /home directory to CephFS. This is being > done for a few reasons: > > - Alleviate load on the root file system device (which is also hosted > on the LRC via iscsi) > - Avoid disk space full scenarios we've regularly hit > - Is more recoverable in the event of teuthology corruption/catastrophe > - Is generally much faster. > - Use as a home file system on other sepia resources (maybe) > > To effect this: > > - The new "home" CephFS file system is mounted at /cephfs/home > - User's home /home/$USER has been or will be (again) rsync'd to > /cephfs/home/$USER > - User's account "home" (/etc/passwd) is being updated to /cephfs/home/$USER > - User's old home /home/$USER will be archived to /home/.archive/$USER > - A symlink will be placed in /home/$USER pointing to > /cephfs/home/$USER for compatibility with existing > (mis-)configurations. > > The main reason for not simply updating /home is to allow > administrators continued access to teuthology in the event of a > Ceph(FS) outage. > > Most home directories have already been rsync'd as of 2 weeks ago. A > final rsync will be performed prior to each user's terminal migration. > In order to update a user's home directory, the user must be logged > out. Generally no action need be taken but I may kindly ask you to log > out of teuthology if necessary. > > Thanks to Laura Flores, Venky Shankar, Yuri Weinstein, and Leonid Usov > for volunteering as guinea pigs for my early testing. They have > already been migrated. The rest of the users will be migrated in a few > days time incrementally. > > -- > Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. > He / Him / His > Red Hat Partner Engineer > IBM, Inc. > GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Red Hat Partner Engineer IBM, Inc. GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
