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Upgrade, flask, sage 4.7, and ext4 filesystem

People: W. Stein, J. Grout

Database

If we stick with the filesystem: NEED a very fast filesystem that supports > 4 million inodes and > 32000 directories per directory, i.e., ext4. This is difficult because boxen and sage.math are both Ubuntu 8.10.
Also, want to at a minimum have user and worksheet metadata stored in database so startup is faster.
Could run the server in a virtual machine, which would support ext4. But are virtual machines fast enough these days? They weren't last year. This would be worth trying.

I tried install virtualbox 4 on sage.math and failed, due to the Linux source and Linux kernel being out of sync somehow. Probably just needs an upgrade and reboot.
I am scared to upgrade virtualbox on boxen.math.
The Virtualbox on boxen.math is somewhat unstable and very old.

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  * I tried install virtualbox 4 on sage.math and failed, due to the Linux source and Linux kernel being out of sync somehow.  Probably just needs an upgrade and reboot.

  * I am scared to upgrade virtualbox on boxen.math.

  * The Virtualbox on boxen.math is somewhat unstable and very old.