[Gluster-users] How safe are major version upgrades?

[David Cunningham]

Thank you for that Hubert.

Does anyone know if an in-place upgrade between major versions is
officially okay or not?


On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 01:39, Hu Bert <revirii at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> we have 2 replicate-3 systems, and i upgraded both online from 5.12 to
> 6.8 and then to 7.6. No (big) problems here, upgrade took between 10
> to 20 minutes (wait until healing is done) - but no geo replication,
> so i can't say anything about that part.
>
> Best regards,
> Hubert
>
> Am Di., 25. Aug. 2020 um 05:47 Uhr schrieb David Cunningham
> <dcunningham at voisonics.com>:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a production system with around 50GB of data running GlusterFS
> 5.13. It has 3 replicating/mirrored nodes, and also geo-replicates to
> another site.
> >
> > How safe would it be to upgrade to a more recent major version, eg 7.x?
> I'm not sure how recommended in-place upgrades are, or if a complete
> re-install is necessary for safety.
> >
> > We have a maximum window of around 4 hours for this upgrade and would
> not want any significant risk of an unsuccessful upgrade at the end of that
> time.
> >
> > Is version 8.0 considered stable?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
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