topic Re: blink install and xfs in Firewall and Security Management

blink install and xfs

peter_schumache — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:33:55 GMT

Upgrading an R77.30 gateway to R80.20 using the blink command options "--reimage" and "--delete-old-partitions" leads to the following results:

the old partition lv_current is deleted while all other partitions are being kept, including lv_log

the file system type is still ext3 for all partitions

2 Questions arise here:

Are our observatins correct?

Is the xfs-type filesystem used for Management Servers ONLY, meaning that even if we istall the gateway from scratch, it would still by ext3?

thx for clarification

Re: blink install and xfs

_Val_ — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:42:57 GMT

I do not think we have 3.10 based blink. So it has to be ext3

Re: blink install and xfs

PhoneBoy — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:04:21 GMT

xfs is only supported on releases that support the Linux 3.10 kernel (not 2.6).
This includes management releases, R80.20-3.10, and R80.30-3.10.
Further, I'm pretty sure the entire partition table needs to be rewritten to support xfs.
This limits you to a clean install from an ISO.

Re: blink install and xfs

JozkoMrkvicka — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:33:12 GMT

So does it mean that we can also have gateway with xfs filesystem on 3.10 kernel ? I know that starting from R80.20 there is xfs filesystem be default (installed from ISO), but I saw only that managements can use it. Do we have some limitation compared to gateways ?
It is a benefit to have xfs compared to ext3 from gateway perspective ?

Re: blink install and xfs

PhoneBoy — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:23:55 GMT

Yes, you can have gateways with xfs filesystem.
As gateways don't use disk to the same extent management/log servers do, I don't believe there is a significant performance benefit.

Re: blink install and xfs

CheckPointerXL — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:57:18 GMT

Hello PhoneBoy,

any limitation to have a cluster with one member ext3 and other member on xfs?

thank you

Re: blink install and xfs

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:09:30 GMT

At a minimum it implies they were built differently.

If they weren't built in the same way there is the potential that different images/takes were used which can cause issues in some scenarios. Would pay to check the outputs of the following and compare accordingly.

show cluster release
fw ver
cpinfo -y all

Re: blink install and xfs

CheckPointerXL — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:13:48 GMT

I have a member on 80.40 with ext3. Now, i need to perform a clean install on the other member of the cluster, so it will be XFS of course.

my doubt if this can be a problem for the cluster health to have one member with ext3 and the other one with xfs

thank you

Re: blink install and xfs

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:02:56 GMT

In isolation it shouldn't be a problem from a Clustering perspective but wouldn't intentionally run them different long term.