7:41 a.m.
Things are going well, and the time of the switch over approaches. If you
use mail locally on ofb, I'd recommend holding off until the all-clear.
Also, in case anyone was confused, I have said I'm making changes to the
mail spool, but technically, this is /var/mail which is getting its own
disk. This where all the mail directories are. I think that the mail
spool is properly the place where the mail server keeps mail in flight.
I'm not touching that.
Also, after this is done, a copy of everyone's mail will still remain on
the root partition. In order to get any gains from this change, we'll need
to delete it. So, after the all clear people should check if their mail
looks all good and if not, we still have the original /var/mail. I figure
we'll delete it in a few days, maybe a week. So, please speak up if you
have any issues.
Mail will be going down pretty soon and you'll hear from me when we're back.
Chris
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 6:10 AM Chris Sloan <chris.d.sloan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm likely (if prep and research goes well) going to do some maintenance
on the OFB mail spool tonight/this morning. I'll be creating a new disk
for the mail spool to fix our issues with running out of space. During the
switch over, postfix and dovecot (our mail server and POP3/IMAP server)
will be shut down. I don't anticipate downtime for very long.
I'll send an all clear (or an I give up) when it's all done. All other
updates will be on slack (#miniofb).
I think I'll also send another email right before the switch over, too.
All mail reception will be off and remote mail access will be off, but
anyone accessing mail locally on ofb will presumably want to stop doing
that during the switch over. I don't think it would be an issue, but
better safe than sorry.
If you have concerns, let me know.
Chris