Technology Update

April 24, 2009

NFS access to fortress.rcac (/archive) to be removed on May 14

NFS access has been a contributing factor in several unplanned DXUL (fortress) outages, and maintaining an exports list across the entire campus causes system management problems and is not recommended by the DXUL vendor. Additionally, NFS access encourages certain types of user behavior that are incompatible with the archival nature of the system and can cause several serious performance and stability issues.

As a result, RCAC is discontinuing NFS access to fortress. EAS will be removing fortress mounts (/archive) on the morning of May 14, 2009. Other methods of accessing fortress data (e.g. scp and sftp) will still be available. If you have questions or problems accessing your fortress account, please contact rcac-help@purdue.edu.