We are now waiting for the servers to complete a fsck on the storage. This will take a bit of time.

Another update for the members. We are still performing fscks on one of the back-end servers. This server has 2 2.5 TB storage partitions on it and is the main location for working with the research data before and after it has been run on the grid. The fscks that were run yesterday (and late into the night) reported that there were errors found on the file systems (incorrect inode counts). This is not an unusual occurrence for large, heavily used file systems (i.e. we do not expect to have lost any data). However, it does mean that we need to re-run the fscks in correction mode. This will take another long bit of time.

We have designed the system so that this back-end server can be offline for somewhere between 36 and 48 hours. We estimate that we have about 15 hours before we hit this window. At that time we will run out of work to distribute to the members.

We expect to be able to complete the fsck prior to that time and load new work into BOINC.

We will continue to keep the membership up to date about our progress.

The fsck is about 75% done so we have a bit more waiting to-do.

The fsck's have finally finished and we are loading additional work for all research projects. We are setting the weights of the projects back to normal.