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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yes, although it is early days for us and I would not say we have finished testing as yet. We have upgraded twice to get there from 4.2.3-0. It seems OK and I have not noticed any changes from 4.2.3.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Greg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sobey, Richard A<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 7 July 2017 10:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Requirement to keep gpfs.smb the same on all nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Just following up on this, has anyone successfully deployed Protocols (SMB) on RHEL 7.3 with the 4.2.3-2 packages?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> [</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sobey, Richard A<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 July 2017 12:12<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list <</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Requirement to keep gpfs.smb the same on all nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">OK Simon, thanks. I suppose we’re all in the same boat having to get change management approval etc!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> [</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 July 2017 12:09<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list <</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Requirement to keep gpfs.smb the same on all nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">AFAIK. Always.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">We have had the service eat itself BTW by having different code releases and trying this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Yes its a PITA that we have to get a change approval for it (so we don't do it as often as we should)...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">The upgrade process upgrades the SMB registry, we have also seen the CTDB lock stuff break when they are not running the same code release, so now we just don't do this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">From: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">>
on behalf of "Sobey, Richard A" <</span><a href="mailto:r.sobey@imperial.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-GB">r.sobey@imperial.ac.uk</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">" <</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 11:54<br>
<b>To: </b>"</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">" <</span><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"><span lang="EN-GB">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[gpfsug-discuss] Requirement to keep gpfs.smb the same on all nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">For how long has this requirement been in force, and why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_updatingsmb.htm"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_updatingsmb.htm</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" 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 lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#323232;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">gpfs.smb</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" 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 lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#323232;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">gpfs.smb</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" 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.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323232;background:white"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Previously I’ve upgraded nodes one at a time over the course of a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">I really don’t fancy the headache of getting approvals to get an outage of even 5 minutes at 6am….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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