1.21a patch note

[TheVedis]

I can't wrap my head around a small patch (bug fixes) + server merge taking 13 hours to accomplish.


SE.. this is displeasing.

you obviously have no clue what else they are doing.....

go look at whats been talked about for well over the last month happening today

[illriginalized]

you obviously have no clue what else they are doing.....

go look at whats been talked about for well over the last month happening today

Over the last month? The patch is small...


You're talking to a Server administrator of 8 years. LOL

Merging data even from old equipment to new equipment doesn't take 13 hours.. MUCH less 8 hours.

"you obviously have no clue".. motherofgod.jpg

[Rydin]

Over the last month? The patch is small...


You're talking to a Server administrator of 8 years. LOL

Merging data even from old equipment to new equipment doesn't take 13 hours.. MUCH less 8 hours.

"you obviously have no clue".. motherofgod.jpg

Does that depend on how much data?

[illriginalized]

Does that depend on how much data?

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

[Aion]

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

[illriginalized]

oh you have experience on doing server merge before?

Many times on Linux/Unix based servers and quite a few times with Windows 2000 to 2003 to 2005 to 2008. And most of the time involving new equipment.

Have done it with much more data than this game has in totality.

which brings us to the question...
Could something be broken?

If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

If something is broken and it takes more than 3 hours to figure out... SE needs to re-evaluate their administrators and think about getting a whole new team. This is embarrassing.

its not like they know the server structure they worked with for a year now, they must really suck at their job
thank you random person with no insight into the details of the internal structure of the project whatsoever
you surely laid their incompetent asses bare...

no offense but i hate it when random people think they are better than a team that works on it for a living for over a year now

[Rydin]

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

which brings us to the question...
Could something be broken?

[Dark_Delacroix]

It can... but I doubt there's 16+ terabytes of data in this game. A server merge shouldn't take more than 6 hours tops and that's with a 1-2 hour buffer to make sure nothing broke.

It really depends on the amount of files, 200GB worth of a whole lot of small files would take longer than 200GB worth of 10 files. This is coming from another server admin. If you want to experience this yourself do the following, pick the FFXIV game folder on your pc and copy it to another hard drive it is around 11GB + and 117,686 files on it, now transfer the same amount of data with mp3's and the time it will take transfer should be different, even though the total of data is the same the amount of time to complete will not be.

This is coming from a humble Server Admin.