[Lustre-discuss] Interoperable issues between 1.8.6 and 2.1

[Jason Brooks]

Hello, 

Thanks for your reply!  

When you refer to ia64, are you referring to the itanium systems?  

--jason

On Aug 22, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>> I am not finding where it says explicitly that a lustre client running
>> 1.8 will successfully be able to read and write to a set of lustre
>> servers running lustre 2.1. are there any known issues?
> 
> I forget where that was written down; I can report that it works fine.
> WITH THE EXCEPTION of ia64 1.8-based clients; that totally doesn't work.
> 
>> Are there any known issues upgrading the oss/ost and mds/mdt systems
>> from 1.8 to 2.1?  There's already > 16 terabytes in place...
> 
> Nope, it was basically umount->upgrade->mount for us.
> 
> --Ken