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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:32:33 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Delorean can't do a system config copy to a 2.2 system
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OK, then this needs to be fixed in both flash-install and the code.
File a bug and assign it to me and I'll get to it.

Cheers,

a


On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:21:01 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> I just checked the fstab on the secondary flash, it has one, but it is
> wrong. My primary flash is wd0, the secondary flash's fstab has wd0
> where it should be wd1. Hmm, I thought flash install got this right.
> But come to think of it, I don't believe I ever checked. It is
> probably this way because the system was never booted from that flash
> after the flash install. But what I am attempting to do is a common
> practice, in-house perhaps, but very much needed in development and
> QA.
> 
> vi /mnt1/etc/fstab
> /dev/wd0a / ffs ro,noatime 1 1
> /dev/wd0e /tmp ffs rw 1 2
> /dev/wd0d /usr ffs ro,noatime 1 2
> /dev/wd0g /usr/local/agile ffs ro,noatime 1 2
> /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw 1 2
> /dev/wd0h /usr/local/agile/conf ffs rw 1 2
> 
> I just changed the wd0s to wd1 and ran the system config copy and it
> worked. I have a work-around so I can keep going on my tests.
> 
> Larry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:30 AM
> To: Larry Scheer
> Cc: Tim Gardner
> Subject: Re: Delorean can't do a system config copy to a 2.2 system
> 
> Pfft, it's not me.  It's common knowledge the clusterdb and other
> config files may not be backwards compatible.
> 
> As for the flash-install, it probably doesn't put an fstab file on the
> CF card, which would account for the problem there.  That's a bug in
> flash-install that can be fixed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:37:12 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
> <larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > This can't be. We can't start saying this is WAD. If so you changed
> > a working design and disable a common practice done by engineering
> > and QA to rapidly switch systems between revs.
> > 
> > It is common to down-rev a system in QA and engineering by doing a
> > flash install then doing a system config copy and then copying a
> > saved cluster-db of an old release that matches the system to the
> > seconday flash and rebooting.
> > 
> > We have done this for years. You just can't take away this
> > capability and say it is WAD. It can take many hours to reconfigure
> > a system and re-build a cluster database with all the volumes,
> > virtual servers, mirrors, snapshots and the like.
> > 
> > You have taken away a proceedure that took only minutes to one that
> > takes several hours. This can't happen.
> > 
> > Sorry, but you need to fix this. I won't be the only one to say so.
> > 
> > By the way this is still broken in the latest Delorean build.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Sharp
> > Sent: Fri 4/6/2007 5:57 PM
> > To: Larry Scheer
> > Cc: Tim Gardner
> > Subject: Re: Delorean can't do a system config copy to a 2.2 system
> >  
> > WAD
> > 
> > Not a supported operation to copy system config backwards to an
> > older version.
> > 
> > Besides, first you have to boot the one you installed with
> > flash_install because I think flash_install doesn't put an fstab
> > file on there; that's done during initial config process.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > a
> > 
> > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:32:51 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
> > <larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Andy,
> > > 	I was setting up Tim's filer (eng45, a cheetah) to do the
> > > unit test of the 2.2.X maintenance release that has the new
> > > upgrade features. The primary flash has the latest Delorean build
> > > (sync'ed today) loaded on it.
> > > 
> > > I did a flash install of 2.2.2.1 on the secondary flash and I
> > > installed Ken's build of Delorean done on Tuesday (submittal 11)
> > > on the primary flash I could not do a system config copy to place
> > > the config info on the secondary flash. I got this error message:
> > > 
> > > system config copy
> > > mount_secondary: Can't mount /dev/wd0a on /mnt1/: Device busy(16)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/usr/local/agile/conf...failed!
> > > Error: No such file or directory(9)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/var...failed!
> > > Error: No such file or directory(9)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/usr/local/agile...failed!
> > > Error: No such file or directory(9)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/usr...failed!
> > > Error: No such file or directory(9)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/tmp...failed!
> > > Error: No such file or directory(9)
> > > Unmounting /mnt1/...failed!
> > > Error: Invalid argument(9)
> > > 
> > > I will upgrade to the latest build to see if the problem still is
> > > there. (I didn't have a problem with today's build upgrading the
> > > config on the secondary flash of a bobcat. But the secondary flash
> > > had Delorean installed on it.
> > > 
> > > We need this capability to work on flashes that have an older
> > > release (i.e 2.2 or 1.3.3) than the primary. 
> > > 
> > > I need to take off so I won't be able to see if the latest build
> > > can update a 2.2.2.1 flash with a Delorean config until much
> > > later. (Maybe Monday?) 
> > > 
> > > Larry
> > 
