[lustre-devel] Building 1.8.9 Kernel modules for Kernel 3.1

[Simmons, James A.]

>Hi,
>
>I need to mount a lustre 1.8.9 filesystem on Kernel 3.16.36.
>
>So, I need to build 1.8.9 Kernel module to mount lustre 1.8.9 filesystem 
>on Kernel 3.16.36.
>
>I am wondering if this is possible.

Nope. The amount of changes needed to support that new of a kernel
are huge. Can you set up a second file system to transfer the data over
to? Parallel copy tools exist.