Skip to main content
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Enjoy members-only rewards and discounts
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.

PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

PDF

Upgrades and rollbacks

There is a minor difference in upgrade procedures related to Small Files Storage Efficiency depending on whether you are upgrading from OneFS versions earlier than 8.0.1 or 8.0.1 and later.

Upgrading from OneFS versions earlier than 8.0.1

If you are upgrading from OneFS versions earlier than 8.0.1, Small Files Storage Efficiency is available only after the upgrade is committed. The feature cannot be rolled back, although you may disable it if needed.

Small Files Storage Efficiency implements new on-disk structures and fields. Because rollback of the feature is not possible, you are not permitted to enable the feature until the installation or upgrade is committed.

The sequence of steps for obtaining and enabling Small Files Storage Efficiency is:

  1. Perform the upgrade.
  2. Test the upgrade. At this point, you cannot enable or test Small Files Storage Efficiency.
  3. Commit the upgrade.
  4. Enable Small Files Storage Efficiency.
  5. Test Small Files Storage Efficiency.
  6. You may disable Small Files Storage Efficiency if needed.

Upgrading from OneFS 8.0.1 and later

If all nodes are running OneFS 8.0.1 or later, and all are committed, then you may follow the normal upgrade, test, and commit procedures. You may enable Small Files Storage Efficiency before committing the upgrade, and the upgrade can be rolled back if needed.


Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\