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

2018-03-09 Thread Christof Schmitt
> Back in the day when one had to roll your own Samba for this stuff,> rolling Samba upgrades worked. What changed or was it never supported?   It was never supported for clustered Samba.   As the problem is with incompatibilities in Samba internal database records: If nothing changed in the

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

2018-03-08 Thread Greg.Lehmann
o:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org> To: <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>> Cc: Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades Date: Wed, Mar 7, 2018 4:35 AM In theory it only affects SMB, but in practice if NFS d

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

2018-03-08 Thread Christof Schmitt
1:54To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.orgSubject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades   The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal

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

2018-03-08 Thread Sobey, Richard A
...@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Christof Schmitt Sent: 07 March 2018 21:54 To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared

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

2018-03-07 Thread Christof Schmitt
fsug-discuss@spectrumscale.orgCc: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.orgSubject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades   Hi,   at this point there are no plans to support "node by node" upgrade for SMB.   Some background: The technical reason for this restriction is that the records s

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

2018-03-07 Thread Greg.Lehmann
@spectrumscale.org Cc: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades Hi, at this point there are no plans to support "node by node" upgrade for SMB. Some background: The technical reason for this restriction is that the recor

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

2018-03-06 Thread Christof Schmitt
lehm...@csiro.au <greg.lehm...@csiro.au>Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:48:44 AMTo: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.orgSubject: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about outage free protocols upgrades   Hi All,    It appears a rolling node by node upgrade of a protocols cluster is not possible.

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

2018-03-06 Thread Christof Schmitt
Hi,   at this point there are no plans to support "node by node" upgrade for SMB.   Some background: The technical reason for this restriction is that the records shared between protocol nodes for the SMB service (ctdb and Samba) are not versioned and no mechanism is in place to handle different

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

2018-03-06 Thread Sobey, Richard A
i36> From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of greg.lehm...@csiro.au <greg.lehm...@csiro.au> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 3:48:44 AM To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] wondering about out