[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Bug 13197

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 08:04 -0500, 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

Do you mean 13917?

> 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.

Good idea.

> 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

If you want to fix 13917, yes.  13917 is a client-side fix.

> or is 1.6.4.2 similar enough  
> to interoperate with 1.6.3 clients?

Our interoperability commitment provides that 1.6.3 and 1.6.4.2 will
inter-operate, however upgrading the OSS and MDS only will not fix
13917.

b.

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