REASON: Our investigations into the recent service disruptions indicated that by running consistency checks on the affected data, the file system was stabilised. To be certain that the data is secure we will be running consistency checks on the remaining data in a controlled manner.

PLANNED DURATION: 40 minutes per site

NOTES: Those communities not already affected by the recent disruptions will go Read-Only for about 40 minutes. This will only affect file uploads, new site building, forum posts and saving of data. All sites will remain on view to visitors and owners. There will be six periods of 40 minutes during which 10% of sites will be affected.

UPDATED: This has now been completed. The consistency checks have been successful.