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posted by martyb on Saturday October 19 2019, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-much-for-uptimes dept.

[Update (2019/10/19 21:02:00 UTC): Both sodium and fluorine have rebooted. Next up will be beryllium rebooting 1d12h from now. That leaves rebooting of helium 18h later and 3h after that will have boron being rebooted. Again, any impact visible to the community should be minimal. See TMB's note, below. --martyb]

We have just learned that Linode, the provider of SoylentNews' server infrastructure, is planning a number of reboots.

[TMB Note]: This shouldn't mean any downtime for anything user-facing except IRC. There will be a few minutes where the comment counts won't update on the front page but those aren't realtime anyway and a few minutes where subscription updates will be delayed until the server that processes them comes back up.

Recently, we identified a commit to the upstream Linux kernel[1] as the cause of an increase in emergency maintenance on our platform. After implementing, testing, deploying, and gaining confidence in a fix, we are now ready to roll this update out to the remainder of our fleet. We're confident this will resolve the bug and ultimately lessen the amount of unplanned maintenance for your Linodes as a result of this specific issue.

To complete this, we will be performing maintenance on a subset of Linode's host machines. This maintenance will update the underlying infrastructure that Linodes reside on and will not affect the data stored within them.

If you are on an affected host, your maintenance window will be communicated to you via a Support ticket within the next few days. You can prepare your Linode for this maintenance by following our Reboot Survival Guide[2].

During the actual maintenance window, your Linode will be cleanly shut down and will be unavailable while we perform the updates. A two-hour window is allocated, however the actual downtime should be much less. After the maintenance has concluded, each Linode will be returned to its last state (running or powered off).

This status page will be updated once maintenance is complete.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/8/905
[2] https://linode.com/docs/uptime/reboot-survival-guide/

The first server reboot is currently scheduled for Friday, 2019-10-18 at 05:00:00 UTC.

Read on after the fold for more details on the scheduled maintenance dates and times.

Note: All dates and times are in UTC:

Affected systems:

lithiumNo Maintenance RequiredLinode 4GB 
magnesiumNo Maintenance RequiredLinode 2GB(pending upgrade)
sodium2019-10-18 05:00 AMLinode 2GB 
fluorine2019-10-19 02:00 AMLinode 8GB(pending upgrade)
helium2019-10-22 03:00 AMLinode 8GB 
hydrogenNo Maintenance RequiredLinode 8GB 
neonNo Maintenance RequiredLinode 8GB 
beryllium2019-10-21 09:00 AMLinode 4GB(pending upgrade)
boron2019-10-22 05:00 AMLinode 4GB(pending upgrade)


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday October 07 2019, @02:06PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 07 2019, @02:06PM (#903697) Journal

    Can we please just find some way to all get along and somehow force Windows Updates onto Linux systems?

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by RandomFactor on Monday October 07 2019, @02:38PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 07 2019, @02:38PM (#903705) Journal

    Yeah, like putting Linux on top of Windows. That should do it. Yeah.

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