Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-28 Thread Walter Underwood
There are lots of small issues, though. 1. Is Solr tested with a mix of current and previous versions? It is safe to run a cluster that is a mix of 4.1 and 4.2, even for a little bit? 2. Can Solr 4.2 run with Solr 4.1 config files? This means all of conf/, not just the main XML files. 3. We

Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-28 Thread Timothy Potter
Hi Walter, I just did our upgrade from a nightly build of 4.1 (a few weeks before the release) and 4.2 - thankfully it went off with 0 downtime and no issues ;-) First and foremost, I had a staging environment that I upgraded first so I already had a good feeling that things would be fine.

Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-28 Thread Mark Miller
Comments hidden inline below. Overall - we need to focus on upgrades at some point, but there is little that should stop the old distrib update process from working (multi node clusters pre solrcloud). Hoever, we should have tests and stuff. If only the days were twice as long. On Mar 28,

Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-28 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 3/28/2013 3:01 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: There are lots of small issues, though. 1. Is Solr tested with a mix of current and previous versions? It is safe to run a cluster that is a mix of 4.1 and 4.2, even for a little bit? 2. Can Solr 4.2 run with Solr 4.1 config files? This means all

Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-28 Thread Mark Miller
On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Shawn Heisey s...@elyograg.org wrote: I actually would like more detail on upconfig myself - what if you delete files from the config directory on disk? Will they be deleted from zookeeper? I use a solrconfig that has xinclude statements, and occasionally

Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-27 Thread Walter Underwood
What do people do for updating, say from 4.1 to 4.2.1, on a live cluster? I need to help our release engineering team create the Jenkins scripts for deployment. wunder -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org

Re: Solr Cloud update process

2013-03-27 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 3/27/2013 12:34 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: What do people do for updating, say from 4.1 to 4.2.1, on a live cluster? I need to help our release engineering team create the Jenkins scripts for deployment. Aside from replacing the .war file and restarting your container, there hopefully