Next-gen node (since 4.0) doesn't have any strong notion of "persistence", unlike previous versions of oVirt Node.

My guess would be that /exports was not moved across to the new system.

The update process for Node is essentially:

* create a new lv
* unpack the squashfs in the new RPM and put it on the LV
* Go through /var, /etc, and /root to see if any files were modified/added, and copy those to the new layer
* Add a new bootloader entry
* Re-install any persistent RPMs

I would guess that /exports as not on its own partition, so it didn't carry across. Mounting the LV for the old image somewhere (/tmp/...) will make them visible again,


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Kasturi Narra <knarra@redhat.com> wrote:
Hello Matt,

       All the partitions will be persisted when gluster is installed on the ovirt node since gluster recommends user not to create bricks in root directory. If the gluster bricks are created in root partition then once the update of the node is done, you will not be able to see any of the bricks.

Hope this helps !!!

Thanks
kasturi.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Matt Simonsen <matt@khoza.com> wrote:
On 12/15/2017 03:06 AM, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Donny Davis <donny@fortnebula.com> wrote:
have you gotten an image update yet?

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Matt Simonsen <matt@khoza.com> wrote:
Hello all,

I read at https://www.ovirt.org/develop/projects/node/troubleshooting/ that "Changes made from the command line are done at your own risk. Making changes has the potential to leave your system in an unusable state." It seems clear that RPMs should not be installed.

That document mainly refers to vintage node.
In Next Generation Node now we have rpm persistence; please check




I'm sure glad we tested!

On one Node image we had images locally stored in /exports and shared out via NFS. After an upgrade & reboot, images are gone.

If we "Convert to local storage" will the data persist?  I am planning to test, but want to be sure how this is designed.

I assume during a Gluster installation something is also updated in oVirt Node to allow for the Gluster partition to persist?

At this point I'm thinking I should manually install via CentOS7 to ensure folders and partitions are persistent. Is there any downside to installing over CentOS7?

Thanks
Matt

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