Stefan Strandberg <[email protected]> writes: > We're eagerly awaiting 1.4.8 for debian, as we're currently back on > 1.4.2-6etch1 and would like to get current before the spring semester > starts.
You should definitely upgrade to the version in etch-backports before your semester starts even if I don't get 1.4.8 finished. It's considerably newer and has fixed quite a few bugs. We're running that version in production on all of our file servers at Stanford without any trouble. > Currently we have 3 fileservers running on vmware virtual machines. > What I was considering doing was this: Clone each machine, power the > originals off, install 1.4.8 on the cloned machines, and see how it > goes. If no problems, make the clones the real ones, and if there are > problems, power them off and go back to the original machines. However, > this plan won't work at all if 1.4.8 will make changes to the filesystem > that aren't compatible with 1.4.2-6etch1. Do you know if this will > happen? Or if I'm going about this all convoluted, feel free to let me > know. I'm still getting used to openafs administration. I believe this should work. I don't think there were any changes to the files on disk between 1.4.2 and 1.4.8. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
