From 06715c50449477bdb4ee4b2eaf04c3b2627cdbdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Omen Wild Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 15:09:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add wording about the /tmp, /scratch, and /scratch/nfs changes. --- docs/maintenance/june-2026.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/maintenance/june-2026.md b/docs/maintenance/june-2026.md index f0969479..5368063d 100644 --- a/docs/maintenance/june-2026.md +++ b/docs/maintenance/june-2026.md @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ The ability to encrypt data at rest will be enabled for Quobyte volumes. ## Farm Specific -Farm sells hardware and storage with a five-year guarantee. Many Farm hardware components have exceeded their lifecycle but will NOT be retired during the June 2026 maintenance window. Please note that if your data storage is older than five years, you will get a warning upon login. Farm does NOT backup data and older storage is in danger of data loss. Please act accordingly. +All job data written to `/tmp` and `/scratch` will be automatically deleted when your Slurm job exits. These spaces are still a shared resource, so please be a good community member and not overfill them. + +Farm sells hardware and storage with a five-year guarantee. Many Farm hardware components have exceeded their lifecycle but will NOT be retired during the June 2026 maintenance window. Please note that if your data storage is older than five years, you will get a warning upon login. Farm does NOT back up data, and older storage is in danger of data loss. Please act accordingly. If you need to start an order for new hardware, see [https://hippo.ucdavis.edu/Farm/product/index](https://hippo.ucdavis.edu/Farm/product/index). Note that there are @@ -40,4 +42,6 @@ None at this time. ## Hive Specific -None at this time. +All job data written to `/tmp` and `/scratch` will be automatically deleted when your Slurm job exits. These spaces are still a shared resource, so please be a good community member and not overfill them. + +The `/scratch/nfs` convenience mount no longer exists. If you need to access the network scratch, you can use the full path `/nfs/hive/scratch`. This area is no longer automatically deleted at the end of every job, so you can use it for temporary storage for data that needs to be accessed by multiple jobs. It is your responsibility to remove this data when you no longer need it. Abuse of this storage can result in your jobs being killed and your account being locked.