Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Thank you for the reminder. I’ve received that nasty surprise myself, but just long ago enough to have forgotten it. Would love to see that fixed. > On Jan 16, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Another problem we've run into with automating GPFS installs/upgrades is > that the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-16 Thread IBM Spectrum Scale
On Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.15 or later and 5.0.2.2 or later, you can install gplbin without stopping GPFS by using the following step: Build gpfs.gplbin using mmbuildgpl --build-packge Set environment variable MM_INSTALL_ONLY to 1 before install gpfs.gplbin package with rpm -i gpfs.gplbin*.rpm

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Kernel BUG/panic in mm/slub.c:3772 on Spectrum Scale Data Access Edition installed via gpfs.gplbin RPM on KVM guests

2020-01-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Felipe, I either misunderstood support or convinced them to take further action. It at first looked like they were suggesting "mmbuildgpl fixed it: case closed" (I know they wanted to close the SalesForce case anyway, which would prevent

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-16 Thread Bryan Banister
We actually add an ExecStartPre directive override (e.g. /etc/systemd/system/gpfs.service.d/gpfs.service.conf) to the gpfs.service [Service] section that points to a simple script that does a check of the GPFS RPMs installed on the system and updates them to what our config management

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to install efix with yum ?

2020-01-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
Another problem we've run into with automating GPFS installs/upgrades is that the gplbin (kernel module) packages have a post-install script that will unmount the filesystem *even if the package isn't for the running kernel*. We needed to write some custom reporting in our configuration management

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Kernel BUG/panic in mm/slub.c:3772 on Spectrum Scale Data Access Edition installed via gpfs.gplbin RPM on KVM guests

2020-01-16 Thread Felipe Knop
Hi Ryan,   I'm aware of this ticket, and I understand that there has been active communication with the service team on this problem.   The crash itself, as you indicate, looks like a problem that has been fixed:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Welcome to the "gpfsug-discuss" mailing list

2020-01-16 Thread Philipp Grau
Hello, as requested: * gpfsug-discuss-requ...@spectrumscale.org [15.01.20 13:40]: > Please introduce yourself to the members with your first post. I'm Philipp from Berlin, Germany. The IT department of the "Freie Universität Berlin" is working place. We have a DDN-System with some PB of