[Gluster-users] How-To downgrade GlusterFS

Atin Mukherjee
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:53:38 -0000

Would you be able to share what is not working for you in 3.8.x (mention
the exact version). 3.4 is quite old and falling back to an unsupported
version doesn't look a feasible option.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 at 17:01, Micha Ober <micha2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was using gluster 3.4 and upgraded to 3.8, but that version showed to be
> unusable for me. I now need to downgrade.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. As upgrades of the op version are
irreversible,
> I guess I have to delete all gluster volumes and re-create them with the
> downgraded version.
>
> 0. Backup data
> 1. Unmount all gluster volumes
> 2. apt-get purge glusterfs-server glusterfs-client
> 3. Remove PPA for 3.8
> 4. Add PPA for older version
> 5. apt-get install glusterfs-server glusterfs-client
> 6. Create volumes
>
> Is "purge" enough to delete all configuration files of the
currently
> installed version or do I need to  manually clear some residues before
> installing an older version?
>
> Thanks.
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