Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades

2018-03-08 Thread Greg.Lehmann
That last little bit “not available today” gives me hope. It would be nice to get there “one day.” Our situation is we are using NFS for access to images that VMs run from. An outage means shutting down a lot of guests. An NFS outage of even short duration would result in the system disks of

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades

2018-03-08 Thread Christof Schmitt
Apologies if that was misleading.  As stated before there are no plans to support rolling code upgrade for SMB in Spectrum Scale.   To answer your question with some speculation, which is no commitment: If there was ever an effort to make rolling upgrade available in clustered Samba, that would be

[gpfsug-discuss] Thoughts on GPFS on IB & MTU sizes

2018-03-08 Thread Saula, Oluwasijibomi
Hi Folks, As this is my first post to the group, let me start by saying I applaud the commentary from the user group as it has been a resource to those of us watching from the sidelines. That said, we have a GPFS layered on IPoIB, and recently, we started having some issues on our IB FDR

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS autoload - wait for IB ports to becomeactive

2018-03-08 Thread Frederick Stock
You could also use the GPFS prestartup callback (mmaddcallback) to execute a script synchronously that waits for the IB ports to become available before returning and allowing GPFS to continue. Not systemd integrated but it should work. Fred __

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS autoload - wait for IB ports to become active

2018-03-08 Thread david_johnson
Until IBM provides a solution, here is my workaround. Add it so it runs before the gpfs script, I call it from our custom xcat diskless boot scripts. Based on rhel7, not fully systemd integrated. YMMV! Regards, — ddj ——- [ddj@storage041 ~]$ cat /etc/init.d/ibready #! /bin/bash # # chkconfig:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades

2018-03-08 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Whether or not you meant it your words “that is not available today.” Implies that something is coming in the future? Would you be reliant on the Samba/CTDB development team or would you roll your own.. supposing it’s possible in the first place. Thanks Richard From: