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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For how long has this requirement been in force, and why?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_updatingsmb.htm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323232;background:white">All protocol nodes running the SMB service must have the same version of </span></b><span class="ph"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#323232;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">gpfs.smb</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323232;background:white"> installed
at any time. This requires a brief outage of the SMB service to upgrade </span></b><span class="ph"><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#323232;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">gpfs.smb</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323232;background:white"> to
the newer version across all protocol nodes. The procedure outlined here is intended to reduce the outage to a minimum.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323232;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Previously I’ve upgraded nodes one at a time over the course of a few days.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is the impact just that we won’t be supported, or will a hole open up beneath my feet and swallow me whole?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I really don’t fancy the headache of getting approvals to get an outage of even 5 minutes at 6am….<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Richard<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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