I’m going to upgrade all of the system kernels to 5.17.3 on Friday April 15th between 11pm and midnight Pacific time.

     I would have stuck with the 5.16 kernel until hell froze over if Linus had chose to make it a long term supported kernel, but unfortunately he did not.  5.15 did not perform well and is the previous long term release.  As near as I can tell, a kernel has to have garbage performance in order to be considered for long term support.

     Anyway, I expect reboots to be done by 11:30 and then the next half an hour will be fixing any broken NFS/NIS mounts and given that they’ve done major work on NFS, probably will see some new unfamiliar NFS issues.  So if this update runs past midnight that is probably why.

     This will effect all Eskimo’s web services including our main website https://www.eskimo.com/, nextcloud https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/, friendica at https://friendica.eskimo.com/, and hubzilla at https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/.