Post date:
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 16:42
Description:
Update of CASTORATLAS to latest CASTOR release 2.1.12 including a new xroot plugin.
For all details look at:
https://cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CASTORService/
ChangesallCASTOR2112
This intervention is not transparent (downtime is expected to take about two hours).
Specific Service Detail:
CASTORATLAS SRM-ATLAS
Reason for this intervention:
This version brings a number of changes, most relevant being:
- Optimized and rationalized tape access, in particular for migrating data to tape
- More efficient usage of database interfaces from all the disk cache components
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A number of bug fixes concerning the disk scheduling and the stager
- In particular, fixed a potential data loss when writing with xroot under heavy load
Effective from date:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 09:30
End date:
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 12:30
Service Element Affected:
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments
Impact on service:
Service will be unavailable during the intervention
Posted by:
IT-DSS
Unit responsible for resolution:
IT Department