On 5/7/2014 10:44 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2014, Dave B. wrote: > >> One of our main thoughts is that the version numbers should be >> indicative of client/server compatibility. > > clients and servers communicate via the AFS-3 network protocol; new > features (RPCs) are added to that protocol in a backwards-compatible > manner. The expectation is that any client version should function > usefully against any server version; I don't see there being such > compatibility concerns.
It is not only an expectation but a requirement. All OpenAFS releases must be backwards compatible with not only all OpenAFS Servers but all IBM AFS 3.6.x Servers as well. Jeffrey Altman
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