Yes Ulf, your understanding is correct. The DBD can talk to 2 previous versions. As long as the DBD is updated first you should be fine.
On April 16, 2015 3:33:22 AM PDT, Ulf Markwardt <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear Slurm developers, > >before I set up Slurm with multi-cluster support, I would like to make >sure that it will be update-safe: It certainly will happen that I can >only update the Slurm installation on _one_ cluster at a time, maybe >with e.g. a week in between. > >Is it a design principle that the latest slurmdbd can communicate with >a >slightly older slurmctrld (e.g. 15.08 with 14.11)? > >Thank you, >Ulf >-- >___________________________________________________________________ >Dr. Ulf Markwardt > >Technische Universität Dresden >Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) >01062 Dresden, Germany > >Phone: (+49) 351/463-33640 WWW: http://www.tu-dresden.de/zih
