[sheepdog-users] Upgrade procedure?

[Bastian Scholz]

Hi,

no idea if you can online upgrade your cluster as described,
but there is a script simple2farm in scrips directory of the
sheepdog source.
The script (offline) convert the store to farm backend storage...


Cheers

Bastian

Am 2012-06-25 10:11, schrieb icez network:
> I'm currently using sheepdog v0.3.0 (2 copies) with qemu 1.0 (fedora 
> 17
> backported to centos 6.2) on my pre-production cluster running on 4
> machines. The current status seems to be fine with some rarely qemu
> segfault mentioned earlier by 'David Douard'. The performance is 
> impressive
> and the cluster recovery process seems working properly when i got 
> storage
> problem last week on one node.
>
> Now I'm testing the recent sheepdog on git with my test cluster 
> (running in
> 3 VMs with 2 copies) and found that the storage backend has been 
> changed
> from 'simple' to 'farm'. I still haven't test the upgrade procedure 
> from
> v0.3.0 yet since my test cluster have some task to do so may I ask if
> there's any 'ONLINE' upgrade procedure to upgrade sheepdog from 
> v0.3.0 to
> current master version on git? The process I planned to use is by 
> following:
>
> - kill 1 node and remove from cluster
> - upgrade to the recent sheepdog version.
> - clear all the target backend folder used by old sheepdog. (rm -rf
> /var/sheepdog ?)
> - start sheepdog again and wait until cluster recovery process done.
> - then do the above process with each other machines until complete.
>
> Is there anything I should take care of?
>
> Best Regards,