oy - No FIddling While the FIle System is Burning

I had planned to post some comments on the papers about the Claytronics project today. it's going to be a wash. I am stuck in an emergency maintenance wrt our global file system and I am going to be point man since I have the most experience with the storage subsystems.

This Doth Sucketh.

But its what I am paid for, so IDK if I'll get to blog much today.

I Hate...

Getting Stuck on stuff that ought to be obvious crap. bah.

exhausted

We were up late helping my wife to study for her biology test for today. Cells and biochem. Then my daughter had gas that she couldn't get out that woke her up at midnight for a couple hours. She cried and cried and there wasn't much we could do then. She finally let go and fell to sleep. Lyuda and I got up at 5 this morning to continue her studying and get them ready. They went out the door at 7.

Right now, Lyuda ought to be taking her test. Avrora ought to be taking a nap. Me? I'm exhausted, but trying to parse and craft GPFS 3.1 pool policy rules.

Better blogging tomorrow, I am sure.

Recovering

My sweet wife refused to wake me prior to 10 this morning. I had continued to work until around 3ish last night. All's done though. I'll have a meeting with the white box linux cluster guys to talk through how we can do this better and faster. It shouldn't have taken as long as it did and it shouldn't have required my intervention at all. However, we made it through and everyone worked on it and got the cluster up. They're just fortunate that they don't have as stringent requirements for uptime or system outages that the other folks' systems do.

ARGH!

I am still at work helping along the upgrade. My own portion of this was taken care of a while ago. That is to say the stuff for the centerwide filesystem. Since I was asked to take care of overseeing the whole process for all the machines here at work, I am still at work. We have two machines that are still not ready for production. One of which is because the system hit some bugs and worked its way through them. The other...well...version control as never their strong point and now that we are installing a new filesystem...argh! I think I have counted 12 different kernels. I found at least three different versions of the FS. Since we're having to build a different set of personality modules for the FS for each kernel...this is taking fracking forever. Oh did I mention they're not running a standard distribution of Linux EITHER?

gah.

So, I am still here and life sucks at the moment. I've been here since 7:30 AM.