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Subject: RE: S-Soak: Upgrade of cheetah fails
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:06:48 -0700
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Thread-Topic: S-Soak: Upgrade of cheetah fails
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From: "Raj Kumar" <raj.kumar@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

Better explained in person, Lets meet sometime, please let me know.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Sharp=20
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:06 PM
To: Raj Kumar
Subject: Re: S-Soak: Upgrade of cheetah fails

Can you explain some more on that?  I need to get a better
understanding.

Thanks,

a

On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:02:26 -0700 "Raj Kumar" <raj.kumar@onstor.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion but that may get painful sometime (e.g.)
> upgrading our 4 node S-Soak cluster.
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp=20
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: Raj Kumar
> Subject: Re: S-Soak: Upgrade of cheetah fails
>=20
> Save yourself some headaches and don't upgrade between submittals.  Do
> a flash_install followed by a system config copy.  For one thing, it
> is 3 times faster, and for another, upgrades from one submittal to the
> next aren't guaranteed to always work, and many things may be changed
> between submittals that the upgrade process doesn't fix, like removing
> files no longer used, etc.
>=20
> Let me know if the flash_install has problems.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> a
>=20
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:27:46 -0700 "Raj Kumar" <raj.kumar@onstor.com>
> wrote:
>=20
> > From sub 15 to 16
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp=20
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:04 AM
> > To: Raj Kumar
> > Subject: Re: S-Soak: Upgrade of cheetah fails
> >=20
> > On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:59:47 -0700 "Raj Kumar"
> > <raj.kumar@onstor.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > Upgrade of cheetah filer in the S-Soak fails due to BSD crashes
> > > during the upgrade. Both the primary and secondary upgrade fails.
> > > Now the cluster is partially upgraded because the other 2 nodes
> > > (BC) are running sub 16 (cluster db 3.0.0). What are our options
> > > to get this back on track?=20
> > >=20
> > > Thanks.
> > >=20
> > > --kumar :-)
> >=20
> > Hi Kumar,
> >=20
> > What software version were/are you upgrading from?
> >=20
> > a
