Il giorno gio 16 apr 2020 alle ore 15:01 Subash K <[email protected]>
ha scritto:

> Hi Enrico,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
>
>
> I’ve following queries on top of your response:
>
>    - In general is community planning to test and support issues in
>    rollback of Bookkeeper down the lane?
>
> Unfortunately no.
We are only testing regular upgrades, not rollback.
It should be doable with current docker based integration testing tools.



>
>    -
>    - We might not frequently upgrade Bookkeeper unless it is demanded by
>    Pulsar. In that case, we might skip few intermediate versions and upgrade
>    directly to an higher version. In that case, are we foreseeing any
>    compatibility change that will cause hinderance during rollback?
>
> Usually this is not a problem. As far as you continue to upgrade from a
supported version to a supported version. If I remember correctly currently
we are officially supporting only BK 4.8 to 4.10.


>
>    -
>    - I’ve not fully gone through the internal working of Bookkeeper. But
>    I would like to understand, can old version of bookie(after rollback)
>    access the new data stored by upgraded bookie?
>
> Usually yes, as far as you do not activate new features that need a new
format of data on disk

Enrico



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>    -
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Subash Kunjupillai
>
>
>
> *From:* Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* 16 April 2020 16:05
> *To:* user <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: Rollback of Apache Bookeeper
>
>
>
> Hi Subash,
>
> usually by default there is no problem in rolling back to the previous
> version.
>
> For instance if you are running 4.9 and you upgrade to 4.10 your bookies
> you can downgrade to 4.9 just by using the old code.
>
> This is because we introduce new features but they are disabled by default
> at least for one release.
>
>
>
> But I suggest you to perform a test about the rollback before going to
> production
>
>
>
> Enrico
>
>
>
>
>
> Il giorno gio 16 apr 2020 alle ore 12:23 Subash K <[email protected]>
> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We are planning to introduce Apache Pulsar in our product. In general we
> always support upgrade and rollback of our product.
>
>
> So I'm trying to understand is there any defined steps provided to support
> rollback of Apache Bookeeper to its earlier version after completing full
> cluster upgrade? I was not able to find those information in
> https://bookkeeper.apache.org/docs/latest/admin/upgrade/
> <https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookkeeper.apache.org%2Fdocs%2Flatest%2Fadmin%2Fupgrade%2F&v=3>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Subash Kunjupillai
>
>
>
>

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