Re: [CORE] HEADS UP: Upcoming Maintenance Downtime

At Josh's request, I'm moving this back to last weekend in November ... to
let things settle out as far as the Press Release (v. press contacts) are
concerned ...


On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Now that 8.1.0 is out the door, there is some maintenance that I need to do
> on the developer vServer ... namely, I'm getting rid of the use of the union
> file system stuff ...
>
> Altho the conversion is relatively easy, due to the size of the vServer, it
> will take a few hours to complete, but, as Dave/Magnus have seen, the union
> file system stuff tends to affect performance, and it does cause problems
> with various memory related buffers when there are alot of files involved.
>
> My plan is to do the upgrade next Saturday evening ... I will send out a
> message on -announce Friday evening, to give ~24hrs notice, and a subsequent
> one right after everything looks to be back up ...
>
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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664