Hi Giovanni, I did the migration with hardware replacement and distribution upgrade over several weeks in March this year. Everything went fluently taking these steps:
original : 3x 1.6.22.1 intermediate: 2x 1.6.22.1 + 1x 1.8.7 intermediate: 1x 1.6.22.1 + 2x 1.8.7 final : 3x 1.8.7 And as you mentioned "akeyconvert -all" for each migrated server. Cheers, Ado Giovanni Bracco wrote on 14.05.21 09:43:
Concerning the migration I understand that the main point is the use of akeyconvert to convert rxkad.keytab to KeyFile KeyFileExt as from the thread[OpenAFS] 1.6 to 1.8 upgrade information Jose M Calhariz jose.calha...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:13:50 +0000where no special answer was provided concerning the dbserver migration, so I suppone that nothing special must be done for that. Giovanni On 14/05/21 04:36, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:53:17PM +0200, Giovanni Bracco wrote:Thank you Jeff, useful information as always! For our production cell we must decide if upgrade all the cell to 1.8.x (a lot of work to be doneo but we have to schedulee that now or then) or remain with CentOS 7.x also for the most recent fileservers. I do not think the option of the "unreleased openafs-stable-1_6_x branch." is a good choice for the production environment.For completeness, I'll note that you do have the option of taking the 1.6.24 release and applying targeted patches to it to get the newer version support (e.g., https://github.com/openafs/openafs/commit/fbf1ed1a0870d67b2ea80cf9bc00c5b7b6f7fbec for the <rpc/types.h> issue). But there are many reasons why that would not be an attractive approach, either, including the risk of running into a situation where the requisite patches are only available for the 1.8.x branch and do not trivially apply to the 1.6.x branch. If you have questions about the different options or the upgrading procedure, we can try to help on the list. -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
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