Greetings,

Is there a way to go from 7.3.5 to 8.1.2 without having all the aggregates start doing automatic conversions to 64 bit? 

Our current filers are getting hit pretty hard.  I think the OS upgrade will help, but I'm afraid the aggregate upgrades will generate too much disk activity and slow things down for a day or two.  We have ~9 aggregates per head that are 10T or larger.  Most of these only have one volume in them.  The shared ones have a few volumes with 40M+ inodes in use.  If I can upgrade the aggregates selectively it will make it less noticeable to the users.

Thanks,

Jeff


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Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611