Home Directory Storage

home.eecs and project.eecs will be down from 8pm to midnight on July
12th, 2011 to be migrated to new equipment. The actual downtime is
expected to be much smaller.

The rest of this notice is primarily targeted at system administrators.
If you choose to read this and have questions about some of the
technical details, please contact your system administrator(s).

1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Most changes will be straightforward. Some project spaces will be
handled differently, see the details below. Note that this implies
a re-mount.

    Old                        New
home:/eecs/<user>     home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>
project:/proj/<name>  project:/vol/proj/<name>

2) CIFS shares will not change (except for the specially-handled project
spaces). However, SMB2 will be enabled (including durable filehandles).

3) The following project spaces will be migrated differently:

     Old NFS export                 New NFS export
project:/proj/aneureuther       cluster:/vol/cproj/aneureuther
project:/proj/b-cam             cluster:/vol/cproj/b-cam
project:/proj/brass             cluster:/vol/cproj/brass
project:/proj/daw-a             cluster:/vol/cproj/daw-a
project:/proj/demmel-d          cluster:/vol/cproj/demmel-d
project:/proj/graham            cluster:/vol/cproj/graham
project:/proj/hilfinger-a       cluster:/vol/cproj/hilfinger-a
project:/proj/iram              cluster:/vol/cproj/iram
project:/proj/jordan-a          cluster:/vol/cproj/jordan-a
project:/proj/millennium        cluster:/vol/cproj/millennium
project:/proj/neureuther        cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther
project:/proj/neureuther-flcc   cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-flcc
project:/proj/neureuther-intel  cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-intel
project:/proj/now               cluster:/vol/cproj/now
project:/proj/parlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/parlab
project:/proj/radlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/radlab
project:/proj/tinyos            cluster:/vol/cproj/tinyos
project:/proj/titanium          cluster:/vol/cproj/titanium
project:/proj/vision            cluster:/vol/cproj/vision
project:/proj/vision-b          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-b
project:/proj/vision-c          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-c
project:/proj/vision-e          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-e
project:/proj/yelick            cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick
project:/proj/yelick-old        cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick-old

If the project space in the above list had CIFS share(s) associated with
it, the said share(s) will retain their name, but will now live on
\\\\\\CLUSTER\<share_name>.

If you have questions or concerns about the timing or technical details,
then please email me at aculich@eecs.berkeley.edu or drop by 319 Soda;
as many of you know, Fred Archibald has retired and I have taken over
his role managing IDSG, so whether or not you have storage questions,
feel free to drop by my office to say hello and introduce yourself.
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