Anand, how stable is 3.0 right now? Would you advise to go with 2.0.8 or 3.0 on a production environment? I've been running 2.0.4 and wanted to upgrade to 2.0.8 but figured if I'm going through the hassle, I could go to 3.0. Only if it's as stable though.
Thanks, Alex On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy <a...@gluster.com> wrote: > Brian Hirt wrote: > >> I have a question about upgrading, but it's not really answered in >> http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_General_FAQ#Will_GlusterFS_be_upward_compatible.3F >> >> I have a 4 node system, with AFR/Distribute. Can I shut down the servers >> one at a time, upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.8 and restart the node. After >> doing this process on all four servers will everything be running okay? >> >> Also, a bit longer term, migrating from 2.x to the soon to be released 3.x >> branch, will this method work as well? Once all servers have been upgraded, >> will they automatically renegotiate to the most recent protocol or does the >> entire cluster need to be shut down and restarted. >> > Hi Brian, > You can do that between 2.0.6 to 2.0.8. All 2.0.x will be compatible to > each other. Though I recommend upgrading all servers at once. To upgrade to > 3, you need to upgrade all your servers and clients. Backend data layout is > same. After upgrading the installation, you restart GlusterFS servers and > remount the clients. > > Dynamic volume management (to add, remove, suspend) servers without > requiring re-mount is going to be the key focus of 3.1 release. > > > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 > Blog [http://unlocksmith.org] > Twitter [http://twitter.com/unlocksmith] > GNU/Linux [http://www.gnu.org] > GlusterFS [http://www.gluster.org] > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
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