[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Bug 13197

[Wojciech Turek]

Hi,

We have done lustre upgrade from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4.2 this way and we  
didn't encourage any problems.

Regards,

Wojciech Turek
On 17 Feb 2008, at 13:04, Charles Taylor wrote:

>
> We are running lustre 1.6.3 with some patches we applied by hand with
> a patched 2.6.18-8.1.14 kernel on both the clients and servers.
> We think we are now hitting lustre bug 13197 and can no longer
> operate without a fix.    We could apply the 13197 patch to 1.6.3 and
> keep going as we are but we would like to start moving  to 1.6.4.2.
>
> Would it be insane to update to 1.6.4.2 on the MDS and OSSs while
> continuing to run 1.6.3 on the clients or is 1.6.4.2 similar enough
> to interoperate with 1.6.3 clients?
>
> Note, I'm not asking for guarantees.   Just wondering if anyone
> *knows* that this will or should not work.
>
> Charlie Taylor
> UF HPC Center
>
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