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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:26:38 -0400
From:      "George Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        "Glen Barber" <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        netperf-users@freebsd.org, netperf-admin@FreeBSD.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject:   Re: zoo downtime 09:00-12:00 EST Wednesday 27 August 2014
Message-ID:  <14ACB316-47C2-454C-AF2C-A7025274924C@neville-neil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140827152530.GL3131@hub.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <0B59BD96-63AA-49C0-8873-D96B8DC5C2EF@neville-neil.com> <20140827152530.GL3131@hub.FreeBSD.org>

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On 27 Aug 2014, at 11:25, Glen Barber wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:21:01AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> We're going to be doing some work on zoo to bring it into a closer alignment
>> with how the
>> rest of the FreeBSD infrastructure  works.  This downtime will be from 09:00
>> until 12:00 on
>> Wednesday August 27th.  Please do NOT log into zoo at that time, even if
>> that appears possible,
>> as the host will be in a transitional state.
>>
>
> The maintenance on zoo is complete.
>
> The main objective of this maintenance window was to diagnose and
> correct an issue with user directories, in particular /usr/home/$USER
> directories that did not contain the expected data.
>
> The issue was a conflicting mount point for /usr/home between two
> separate datasets, specifically:
>
> o zroot/loginhome/$USER mounts to /home/$USER
> o /home/$USER is a symlink to /usr/home/$USER
> o zroot/usr/home mounts to /usr/home, on top the existing contents
>
> As a precautionary measure, the original zroot/usr/home mountpoint has
> been changed to /oldhome in case there is data that is needed since the
> new machine has been installed.
>
> Further preparation will be needed in order to bring this machine into
> alignment with the rest of the FreeBSD.org cluster, and an appropriate
> heads-up will be given when this transition is to take place.

Thanks for this and yes, we'll figure out the next window soon.

Best,
George

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