Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2023-06-14

Invited

• Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, O, Ed

Attendees

• Anthony, Guoxiang, Clayton, Dave, Ed

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• CsLWGMeeting20230531

Review last meeting's Action Items

• Homedirectory quotas (a2brenna) - RTs: 1112506, 1288354 et al
  • 100 GB quotas in staged roll out, plan detailed in tickets above
    • Timeline?

• Snapshots are still disabled, when are they to be re-enabled? (a2brenna)
  • Snapshots appear to be enabled in the GENERAL environment, but not in TEACHING. I am now fielding complaints from students. (a2brenna)
    • Were disabled at Nick's request, will be re-enabled.
      • Have not been re-enabled

• Need to reboot all the machines as soon as new kernel/patch is available to fix priv escalation vulnerability
  • Kernel has been released

New business

• Sunsetting *-202.cloud.cs.uwaterloo.ca (18.04 Infrastructure Cloud hosts) (a2brenna)
  • Containers need to be upgraded and migrated
    • Some difficulties involving salt when moving from Ubuntu 18.04 -> 20.04. Working on documentation.

Comments

• Almost nobody showed up to this one, so the whole agenda was pushed and the meeting devolved into a discussion of various other things.