[tech] meito (the new fileserver)

[Nick Bannon]

James Andrewartha wrote:
> The new filserver is up and running, with 75gig of RAID 1 storage under
> /space. It does NIS, mounts /home and /services RW, has all r* services

That's great, could be very handy.

[...]
> We also need to work out a policy on how to manage /space. One suggestion
> is to have home directories for mounting under XP using samba. I'm just
> moving the sgi freeware respositry from mussel to meito atm.
[...]

As a first step, I think it'd be a good idea to move the contents of
morwong:/services onto it. /space is a random name we've used to put
spare local space on a machine - exporting /space to other machines
gets confusing. (e.g. where should we mount meito:/space on mussel,
other than the current /mnt/tmp ? ::-) ) Meito can then have the CNAME
of "services.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" .

Nice RAID'ed space makes sense for /home, of course, but I don't think
we're quite ready to do that. In the meantime, we can use it for
/services and /home backups - I'm currently thinking a combination of
pdumpfs and DVD burning. ::-)

BTW - was it previously using poobrown's IP? morwong's a bit unhappy
about that ;

morwong: ~>df -k
NFS3 server poobrown not responding still trying

Where was it mounted? Can we umount -f it, or move it back temporarily?

Nick.

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