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