Hi all,
I’m upgrading GitLab CE (omnibus) from 10.2.5 to the current stable version (GitLab 14) and I’m currently at version 13.0.14. While performing the last incremental upgrade to 13.0.14, I saw in the command output to the screen that I have to convert storage type from Legacy to Hashed in order to upgrade to version 14 because it’s no longer supported in version 14. Does anyone know where to find a procedure on how to convert to hashed storage?
I run the GitLab CE on RHEL 7.X, single node installation, self-managed, downtime is acceptable. Thanks in advance!
Hi,
According to this: Hashed Storage as the only storage (&2320) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab
In version 13.3 automatic migration takes place. As per this: Upgrading GitLab | GitLab you have to go yet to 13.1.11 and then 13.8.8 and then 13.12.x (latest current 13.12 release) before going to 14.x.
You can do it manually, after a quick google for gitlab convert to hashed storage, the Gitlab docs has this info: Repository storage Rake tasks | GitLab
Mine was done automatically when upgrading Gitlab, so I think you don’t need to do much else really other than finish going through the upgrade path. Unless of course you want to do it manually.
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This is excellent information, so based on that I’ll continue along the prescribed upgrade path to have the storage converted automatically. Thanks!
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Once you are on the latest 13.12.x release, your next upgrade path is 14.0.x then 14.1.x and then latest 14.x.x which is 14.6.1 right now.
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