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<div dir="ltr" >However it is not as bad as described. There is no need to shut down all CES nodes. If you use our install toolkit for upgrade (which I would recommend) it will shut down half of the CES nodes, update those, bring down the other half, bring up the updated ones, update and bring up the rest. So there is a downtime, but that is just a few minutes.</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Filesystem access issues via CES NFS<br>Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 13:30<br>
<div><font face="Default Monospace,Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2" >On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 10:14 +0000, Simon Thompson wrote:<br>> From our experience, you can generally upgrade the GPFS code node by<br>> node, but the SMB code has to be identical on all nodes. So that's<br>> basically a do it one day and cross your fingers it doesn't break<br>> moment... but it is disruptive as well as you have to stop SMB to do<br>> the upgrade. I think there is a long standing RFE open on this about<br>> non disruptive SMB upgrades...<br>><br><br>My understanding is that the issue is the ctdb database suffers from<br>basically being a "memory dump", so a change in the code can effect the<br>database so all the nodes have to be the same. It's the same issue that<br>historically plagued Microsoft Office file formats.<br><br>Though of course you might get lucky and it just works. I have in the<br>past in the days of role your own because there was no such thing as<br>IBM provided Samba for GPFS done exactly that on several occasions.<br>There was not warnings not to at the time...<br><br>If you want to do testing before deployment a test cluster is the way<br>forward.<br><br>JAB.<br><br>--<br>Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br>HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br>University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a> </font><br> </div></blockquote>
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