Reverting to a previous level of GPFS when you have not issued mmchconfig release=LATEST
If you have not issued the mmchconfig release=LATEST command, perform these steps.
- Stop all user activity in the file systems.
- Cleanly unmount all mounted GPFS file systems. Do not use force unmount.
- Stop GPFS on all nodes in
the cluster:
mmshutdown -a
- Run the appropriate uninstallation program to remove GPFS from each node in the cluster. For example:
- For Linux® nodes (this example is only applicable on the
IBM Storage Scale Standard
Edition):
rpm -e gpfs.gpl gpfs.license.std gpfs.base gpfs.docs gpfs.gskit gpfs.msg.en_US
- For AIX® nodes:
installp -u gpfs
- For Windows nodes, open the Programs and Features control panel and remove IBM General Parallel File System.
For more information about the remaining steps, see IBM Storage Scale in IBM® Documentation, and search for the appropriate IBM Storage Scale: Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide for your release.
- For Linux® nodes (this example is only applicable on the
IBM Storage Scale Standard
Edition):
- Copy the installation images of the previous GPFS licensed program on all affected nodes.
- Install the original install images and all required PTFs.
- For Linux nodes running GPFS, you must rebuild the GPFS portability layer.
- Restart all nodes.