On 2010-09-15, at 13:32, Brock Palen wrote:
> Thanks that is great to know.  Is there much risk to try with 1.8 and then 
> back off to 1.6 if there are issues?  Risk of data loss?

We do not test/support formatting at a higher Lustre version, and then 
downgrading below the original version used for formatting.  With 1.6->1.4 this 
definitely did not work, though I'm not sure if there are specific 
incompatibilities between 1.8->1.6.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.

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