On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 13:18 -0700, Herb Wartens wrote: > Actually we have a patch here at the lab that augments lctl to copy logs. > We can do this on a running filesystem. If the administrator uses this > command, it is possible to have a freshly formatted 1.6 Lustre filesystem > that can mount 1.4.x clients. This seems to work just fine on our test > systems. There are some log records that 1.4 clients do not understand, but > there > seem to just be harmless markers. We also plan on using this if we ever add > any new > osts to the filesystems that we upgraded from 1.4 to 1.6... > I will open a bug and post the patch over there if people might find it > useful.
Please do, this could prove useful for our upcoming deployment as well. -- Dave Dillow National Center for Computational Science Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 241-6602 office _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
