On 24/10/11 17:05, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2011-10-23, at 10:55 PM, Brett Worth wrote: >> On 22/10/11 03:10, Prakash Surya wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:58:39AM -0700, David Noriega wrote: >>>> Also could I have the servers move to 2.1 while still having the >>>> clients at 1.8.6? >>> >>> AFAIK, yes this is possible. >> >> What about running 1.6.5 clients to connect to a 2.1 server? >> >> We have an old legacy system which has 1.6.5 which is currently connecting >> to a 1.8.6 >> server. Will a 2.1 server still talk to something that old? > > No that won't work. 1.8 clients have added code to handle the > protocol changes with 2.x servers. There were a number of bug > fixes related to corner cases in protocol interoperability, so > it is recommended to use at least 1.8.5 clients, but 1.8.6 is > better.
Ah thanks. At least we now know that we're stuck with 1.8 until the old system goes away. Brett _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
