[lustre-discuss] lustre client server interoperability

[Patrick Farrell]

Jon,

You've got the interop right.

Unfortunately, Intel is no longer doing public maintenance versions of Lustre, so 2.8 will not receive updates after release.

- Patrick
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From: Jon Tegner [jon.tegner at foi.se]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:16 AM
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Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org; Jan Pettersson
Subject: SV: lustre client server interoperability

So if I understand correctly one has the following "centos options":

1. Lustre-2.5.3 with CentOS-6 on both clients and servers.
2. Lustre-2.5.3, CentOS-6 on servers, and 2.7.0 and CentOS-7 on clients.
3. Wait a while and use Lustre-2.8.0/CentOS-7 on clients and servers.

At least on clients I would prefer to run CentOS-7, but if 2.7 (and 2.8 - will this version receive updates?) are less reliable that might not be a good idea?

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

/jon

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Ämne: Re: [lustre-discuss] lustre client server interoperability

No - 2.5 is the last public stable client release from Intel.

On 8/11/15, 2:22 PM, "Kurt Strosahl" <strosahl at jlab.org> wrote:

>So is there a stable client for centos 7 that is backwards compatible
>with 2.5.3?
>
>w/r,
>Kurt
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patrick Farrell" <paf at cray.com>
>To: "Kurt Strosahl" <strosahl at jlab.org>, lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 4:24:15 PM
>Subject: RE: lustre client server interoperability
>
>Kurt,
>
>Yes.  It's worth noting that 2.7 is probably marginally less reliable
>than 2.5, since it has had no updates/fixes since it was released.
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>From: lustre-discuss [lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] on behalf
>of Kurt Strosahl [strosahl at jlab.org]
>Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:25 PM
>To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>Subject: [lustre-discuss] lustre client server interoperability
>
>Hello,
>
>   Is the 2.7 lustre client compatible with lustre 2.5.3 servers?  I'm
>running a 2.5.3 system lustre system, but have been asked by a few people
>about upgrading some of our clients to CentOS 7 (which appears to need a
>2.7 or greater client).
>
>w/r,
>Kurt J. Strosahl
>System Administrator
>Scientific Computing Group, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
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