On Thursday, February 7, 2008, we will have a scheduled downtime from 4:00am to 8:00am EST.
Scheduled work includes:
- Firmware updates to the disk array on our home directory file server
- Upgrade virtual hosting web server to Apache 2
- Operating system patches
Why is it happening:
- Ordinarily, we would avoid having a downtime during the first week of classes; however, our file server vendor has classified a recent firmware update as \”critical\” meaning there is the potential for data loss.
- While our systems are down, we plan to upgrade the virtual host web server (virtweb) that hosts URLs of the form http://[projectname].cs.princeton.edu to Apache 2. This will allow web pages to host files larger than 2G.