Saturday 25 March 2023 Termcom Meeting

money stuff
- CIF: initial proposal rejected due to high cost ($1450), consider alternate choices ($2x460x1.13)
- MEF: MathSoc is still forming a committee. we shall wait
powernap
- allow audio group to do bluetooth - Edwin
- returned to CSCF
- replace thermal materials? not now
password manager (bitwarden)
- up and running!
- ask IST to lift firewall restrictions to allow external access - Leo
cloud cluster
- ginkgo HDD has been failing, high error count reported by SMART
- move some of the old mirror drives to ginkgo, and potentially other cloud machines too?
- we have 15 idle drives. just fill up ginkgo and put all of the rest to biloba
new mirror page!
- collaboration with webcom?
- add more information to the front page (current sync status, last sync time, etc.)
- add a blog section about recent changes on the mirror
general mirror renovations (Long Term Project)
- config reload doesn't work (state reset on reload)
- mirror-checker - a Golang rewrite - Nathan
netapp
- what's next? build our own ZFS cluster?
- build a newer krb5 package with DES backported
cobalamin - the backup machines in Physics 2
- random shutdowns and reboots
- should be replaced by something else that are slightly newer

TODOs

Leo: request firewall citric-acid, go to server room to move old mirror drives to cloud clusters
Edwin: allow audio group to log into powernap and allow all users that can log into powernap to edit bluetooth settings
Nathan: rewrite mirror-checker in Golang (not Rust, duh)
Max: backport a newer version of krb5 sutff