On 11/19/2014 10:11 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > We are running into this crash stacktrace on 3.4.2. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010241 > > The NFS process dies with no predictability. I've written a shell > script that detects the crash and runs a process to completely kill all > gluster processes and restart glusterd, which has eliminated > customer-facing fallout from these problems. No kill required. `gluster volume start <volname> force` should re-spawn the dead processes. > > Because of continual stability problems from day one, the gluster > storage is being phased out, but there are many terabytes of data still > used there. It would be nice to have it remain stable while we still > use it. As soon as we can fully migrate all data to another storage > solution, the gluster machines will be decommissioned. > > That BZ id is specific to version 3.6, and it's always difficult for > mere mortals to determine which fixes have been backported to earlier > releases. > A (not so?) easy way is to clone the source, checkout into the desired branch and grep the git-log for the commit message you're interested in. > Has the fix for bug 1010241 been backported to any 3.4 release? I just did the grep and no it's not. I don't know if a backport is possible.(CC'ed the respective devs). The (two) fixes are present in 3.5 though. If so, > is it possible for me to upgrade my servers without being concerned > about the distributed+replicated volume going offline? When we upgraded > from 3.3 to 3.4, the volume was not fully functional as soon as we > upgraded one server, and did not become fully functional until all > servers were upgraded and rebooted. > > Assuming again that there is a 3.4 version with the fix ... the gluster > peers that I use for NFS do not have any bricks. Would I need to > upgrade ALL the servers, or could I get away with just upgrading the > servers that are being used for NFS? Heterogeneous op-version cluster is not supported. You would need to upgrade all servers. http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Upgrade_to_3.5 Thanks, Ravi > > Thanks, > Shawn > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
