[Lustre-discuss] Upgrading major components

[Mag Gam]

Thankyou Brian!

Hopefully when 2.0 comes out no kernel modules should be needed ;-)


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Brian J. Murrell
<Brian.Murrell at sun.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 11:03 -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
>> Hi All,
>
> Hi,
>
>> I am planning to migrate from 1.6.5.52 (MDS, MDT, OST, OSS) to the
>> latest stable 1.6.6. The clients are already at 1.6.6. I was wondering
>> if I should do anything special other than backup my most critical
>> data.
>
> Nope, nothing else need be done prior to upgrading.
>
>> I suppose if I just upgrade my kernel
>
> And accompanying lustre packages such as lustre-modules, ldiskfs, and
> the user-space tools for example.
>
>> with new lustre support, I
>> should be just able to mount everything up with no problems.
>
> That's the idea.
>
>> Also, what would happen if the MDS was only upgraded and not OST volumes?
>
> It would work.  We support rolling upgrades and officially support
> releases n-1 and n+1 simultaneously -- although in practise we usually
> support more than 1 version +/- -- there are just no guarantees beyond
> +/-1.
>
> b.
>
>
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