Upgrading the loopbacknfs POSIX Client on a Linux Server

This section describes how to upgrade the loopbacknfs POSIX Client on a Linux server.

About this task

To upgrade the loopbacknfs POSIX client on a RHEL, SLES, or Ubuntu server, you must upgrade the mapr-loopbacknfs package.

Procedure

  1. Stop the mapr-loopbacknfs service.
    service mapr-loopbacknfs stop
  2. Remove any currently installed client patches. For example:
    • On RedHat / CentOS: yum remove mapr-patch-loopbacknfs
    • On SLES: zypper remove mapr-patch-loopbacknfs
    • On Ubuntu: apt-get remove mapr-patch-loopbacknfs
  3. Upgrade the mapr-loopbacknfs package.
    • On RedHat / CentOS: yum update mapr-loopbacknfs
    • On SLES: zypper update mapr-loopbacknfs
    • On Ubuntu: apt-get install mapr-loopbacknfs
  4. Update the cluster configuration information in the mapr-loopbacknfs.new file.
    vi /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/initscripts/mapr-loopbacknfs.new
  5. Copy mapr-loopbacknfs.new to the mapr-loopbacknfs script
    cp
    /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/initscripts/mapr-loopbacknfs.new
    /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/initscripts/mapr-loopbacknfs
  6. Start the loopbacknfs service.
    service mapr-loopbacknfs start
  7. Check the status of the loopbacknfs service.
    service mapr-loopbacknfs status