13 Nov
1999
13 Nov
'99
10:55 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jay Soffian wrote:
- failover filer A, turn filer A off, upgrade its FC-AL controller,
move its A loop, turn it back on, giveback to filer A from filer B. Then do the same on filer B.
This is what we did on a pair of filers with Oracle data. For added safety, we temporarily flipped Oracle to archive mode, logging to local disk, but it wasn't needed as the upgrade went exactly as planned.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"