Monthly Archives: March 2014

Following the unplanned power cut on Tuesday, one of our SAN machines (ifevo4) started reporting a problem with the flash cache memory in one of its controllers. The machine has two controllers, A and B, for redundancy. Both with two … Continue reading →

As part of our rolling programme of network upgrades and replacement of old kit, the following have either happened or are planned to happen soon: The remaining “gigabit” switches in the Forum will be replaced with current models, completing the … Continue reading →

On Tuesday 4th of March there was a period of a few minutes, from 11:15am to about 11:25am, when most peoples’ home directory quota was incorrectly shrunk to 2MB. Anything trying to write to home directories during that time will … Continue reading →