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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">IBM has stated that there will no longer be PTF releases for 4.1.0, and that 4.1.0-8 is the last PTF release. Thus you\u2019ll have to choose between upgrading
to 4.1.1 (which has the latest GPFS Protocols feature, hence the numbering change), or wait and go with the 4.2 release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I heard rumor from somebody at IBM (honestly can\u2019t remember who) that the first 3 releases of any major release has some additional debugging turned up, which
is turned off after on the fourth PTF release and those going forward. Does anybody at IBM want to confirm or deny this rumor?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I\u2019m also leery of going with the first major release of GPFS (or any software, like RHEL 7.0 for instance).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Bryan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Buterbaugh, Kevin L<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 28, 2015 8:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale 4.2 - upgrade and ongoing PTFs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What about the 4.1.0-x stream? We\u2019re on 4.1.0-8 and will soon be applying an efix to it to take care of the snapshot deletion and \u201cquotas are wrong\u201d bugs. We\u2019ve also go no immediate plans to go to either 4.1.1-x or 4.2 until they\u2019ve had
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<p class="MsoNormal">It\u2019s not that big of a deal - I don\u2019t mind running on the efix for a while. Just curious. Thanks\u2026<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Oct 28, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Steve Duersch <<a href="mailto:duersch@us.ibm.com">duersch@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">>></span><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Is the plan to ?encourage? the upgrade to 4.2, meaning if you want fixes and
are at 4.1.1-x, you move to 4.2, or will IBM continue to PTF the 4.1.1 stream for the foreseeable future?</span></tt><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IBM will continue to create PTFs for the 4.1.1 stream.
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Steve Duersch<br>
Spectrum Scale (GPFS) FVTest<br>
IBM Poughkeepsie, New York<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin Buterbaugh - Senior System Administrator<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Kevin.Buterbaugh@vanderbilt.edu">Kevin.Buterbaugh@vanderbilt.edu</a> - (615)875-9633<o:p></o:p></p>
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