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At Josh's request, I'm moving this back to last weekend in November ... to 
let things settle out as far as the Press Release (v. press contacts) are 
concerned ...


On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Now that 8.1.0 is out the door, there is some maintenance that I need to do 
> on the developer vServer ... namely, I'm getting rid of the use of the union 
> file system stuff ...
>
> Altho the conversion is relatively easy, due to the size of the vServer, it 
> will take a few hours to complete, but, as Dave/Magnus have seen, the union 
> file system stuff tends to affect performance, and it does cause problems 
> with various memory related buffers when there are alot of files involved.
>
> My plan is to do the upgrade next Saturday evening ... I will send out a 
> message on -announce Friday evening, to give ~24hrs notice, and a subsequent 
> one right after everything looks to be back up ...
>
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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
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