I took t2 down for maintenance today. I decided it was safer to do a full upgrade to Solaris 10 update 7, as despite a longer and more complex procedure than applying patches, it is actually less risky.
since I'm located 3700 miles away from 't2', I obviously want the safest option. Unfortunately, the syntax of one of the commands (lucreate) in the version of Solaris on t2 is different to that on the more up to date documentation on Sun's website. I need to resolve this. As such, I was unable to complete process today. Hopefully I should be aware of the correct syntax by Sunday or Monday, and will finish what I started. If you are very observant, you may notice two new file system on t2. rootpool 98G 24K 98G 1% /rootpool tmppool 24G 24K 24G 1% /tmppool You may use them if you wish, as a *temporary* resource, as they will be wiped in a couple of days. You will find they are *MUCH* faster than the home directories, which are shared via NFS. Extracting the file source for gcc 4.4.0 (the file gcc-4.4.0.tar.gz) took over 10 minutes via the NFS mounted home directories. That has dropped to 37 seconds on the local disk, so a speedup of around 16x !! Those two file systems are not backed up, there is no quotas and they will be deleted in a couple of days. But they in the mean time, you mind 't2' a lot more usable than it was. I expect the smaller of the two file systems (24 GB) will remain on t2 and so would be a small fast access area. But it will be limited somewhat by its small size. But before that, the contents will be deleted, so don't leave any thing on there you want kept. Consider those directories a very fast 'scratch' area. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
