storage maintenance starts shortly

storage maintenance will start shortly, perhaps in less than an hours.

Everything is prepared so hopefully the downtime is only less than 30mins.

 

16th Jul 2013
storage maintenance today

In several hours there will be some storage maintenance on going. We need to reboot all machines. Reason is on the storage side several drives have dropped in speed, which means the whole array is crawling right now. We have no idea why the SATA link is being renegotiated for lower speed, ALL sata cables are high quality and new. Further, Samsung ... Read More »

16th Jul 2013
some real world benchmarking

Tested system configs are Atom N2800, 4G ram and AMD E350, 8G Ram. Both system show full bandwidth utilization, and the AMD one also heavy inbound traffic. despite these, the GUI has *never* been this fast. I've never seen the filemanager load up so fast, nor never seen ruTorrent load up so fast. It's insane! Tomorrow is some fine-tuning work ... Read More »

16th Jul 2013
istgt issues

istgt requires a restart everytime LUNs are changed, which is very cruel. Also any connectivity issue very easily causes client node to remount as read only, for unknown reason. Therefore, we are possibly changing the iSCSI daemon to another one within the next 48hrs which was noted to handle errors much more gracefully in tests done ... Read More »

15th Jul 2013