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Hi,

You can do it any time (after running the Setup Assistance of course)
2.1.18 brings some important fixes.
If you already have a cluster running, upgrade it using the maintenance tool in 2.1.18.
If you don't have a cluster, better uninstall and install 2.1.18

Regards

BTW, I suggest you wait untill next week.

We are release an update that provides more reliability and stability to the server.

Hi Lucas,

As I mentioned earlier, if you run MatrixStore with other services, we cannot assure the integrity of the data:

- Other services can modify or delete data in the background.
- MatrixStore reserves quite some memory for itself, that may affect other services.
- Spotlight scans your disks which can drop MatrixStore's performance significantly.

etc...

However, if having all that into account you still want to try it, you can.

On a running MatrixStore node, if you run the following command:

sudo '/Applications/MatrixStore Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/unstrip-macosx.sh'

and reboot, the system will still run MatrixStore and all the other services will be re-activated.

Tell us if you experience any problem although as I said, in that situation, your data is under risk.

cheers

When you install MatrixStore on a machine, it becomes a dedicated MatrixStore node. MatrixStore is not compatible with other services otherwise the integrity of your data cannot be assured.

If you want to re-active previous services, you have to un-install MatrixStore and reboot. After that, the machine will go back to its previous status.

To un-install, run the following command:

sudo '/Applications/MatrixStore Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/scripts/uninstall.sh'

This script will re-enable all the services, will remove the MatrixStore service,
will remove the MatrixStore communication layers and will erase all data stored by MatrixStore on that node.

Hi,

Regarding the first question:

MatrixStore runs on any hardware supported by MacOS X so if that extra hardware is supported by MacOS X, the answer is yes. Although that configuration is not officially supported, it provides proper cpu and storage capabilities to perform as nodes.

The only requirement is that the OS and the disk volumes must be properly installed and configured before installing MatrixStore.

For the second question, currently, you cannot add a second volume on the fly into a node. You can have 2 volumes on a node but they must be present at the moment of MatrixStore installation.

However, there is a workarond that limitation if you are sure there is remaining capacity in the cluster for a node going down. You could remove from the cluster the node you want to expand, uninstall Matrixstore, prepare the second volume, install MatrixStore and attach it as a new node.

Another thing to bear in mind is that in one year's time, we'll probably support expanding a node on the fly by adding new volumes :-)