[3616] in Release_7.7_team
Outreach to multi-partition Sun users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Dec 5 18:46:40 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 05 Dec 2002 18:46:37 -0500
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I drafted a note to send to multi-partition Sun users.
Garry produced a list of contacts from Greg's list of systems.
Enclosed is the note I suggest we send, and the sorted list of
owners and systems.
We have 78 systems to deal with now that mine is re-installing.
-wdc
---- Note to multi-partition Sun users ----
About a year and a half ago, Athena installs on Suns changed from having
separate root, usr, and var disk partitions to one single partition.
Doing this enabled us to quit worrying whether installed software would
overflow some arbitrary boundary. With the advent of bigger disks, it
is clear that there has been great value to bringing more and more
software local and not worrying about needing to re-partition the disk.
We would like to enable Athena Suns to run faster by bringing more
software onto the local disk. Now there are between 50 and 100
systems in the field that have the old partitioning scheme. Such
systems, even if they had plenty of free disk space, would overflow one
or more partitions.
If we could get rid of the multi-partition systems, it would greatly
simplify our release planning, and would enable us to make ambitious
performance enhancements by bring a LOT of stuff local. It would also
enable us to change to a cleaner way of installing the Athena software
on top of Solaris.
But we would like to minimize inconvenience to customers.
Our records show you as the contact person for the following
multi-partition Suns:
<list of systems>
If any of these systems have no local data, we would like to re-install
Athena on them.
Are there systems listed where it would be an inconvenience to you if
Athena were re-installed?
How can we work with you to offer cleaner and faster Athena on Sun while
minimizing your inconvenience?
-William Cattey
Athena UNIX Platform Team
---- List of contacts ----
<none> catamaran
<none> schooner
abdenna,cavan pedagogue
alexp dit
alg rattail
angelao slotine
athena-rcc djali
athena-rcc gaston
athena-rcc maleficent
cana pullman-standard
carlj,sys-lib baron-ochs
ccmei,donnaon laguna
ccmei,sfrankel waves
charvey computer-water
chengyu gordon
connors agrea
cwis,lisanti psb-cwis2
davefoss,fletch balboa
davefoss,fletch1,eecs eecs-ath-05
davefoss,fletch1,eecs eecs-ath-10
davefoss,fletch1,eecs eecs-ath-32
donnaon cist2
donnaon m5-332a-1
edel mindsun
einstein,donnaon cfd4
esg-cluster-mgrs l-slide
esg-cluster-mgrs oobleck
esg-cluster-mgrs pick-gun
fgao kant
fgao locke
goldsipe blankschtein
hdadmin helpdesk3
hoffmann marthas-vineyard
hoffmann paddington
hschan dw2
karen lang
karen lees2
karen lees3
karen matrix
karen thornton
kimv stc-con
kirtley generator
lisanti cwistopher
maier harold
mariakat cfd3
mnargi leicester
network dip
norio mcrae
orbitee guru
phils coast
phils duspcom5
phils,engler saarinen
pib barton-sun
qjfoster arizona
qsupport-acs allegretto
rachel m24-021-sun1
raeburn dcl
resaki bertie
rutledge nevis-sun
sipb-staff hodge-podge
smcguire mr-jones
smyser charleseliot
smyser,sld aalto
stellar-request draupadi
suenj rca-sun
tbelton iphigenia
ted chaos
tfitz cat2
tfitz,archhelp archetype
tfitz,archhelp archfile
tomt the-rim
vivoni,donnaon samarkand
wccf bandini
wccf hchinaski
wccf yoda-wccf
yunpeng mayon
yunpeng pelee
zbt-admin jiffy-express
