Following consultation with Jinyu Sheng, maintenance work was performed on Jade thisAM, starting at 10am and lasting for approximately 20 minutes. Following the period of maintenance, Jade was back online and functioning normally. During maintenance, the server and all its services (NFS exported disk among them) were UNAVAILABLE.

Work performed was an update of the system flash firmware image, which controls low-level boot and function of server hardware. This work was done in an attempt to alleviate recent unscheduled reboots (twice in the last two weeks).

We'll know ... within the next week or so ... if this has resulted in any reduced frequency of crash-reboots.

Please contact TDC if you observe any change of behaviour or other problems.