Hi, "Loris Bennett" <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, > > On the page > > http://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html > > in the part about updates it says: > > "Slurm permits upgrades of up to two major or minor updates > (e.g. 14.03.x or 14.11.x to 15.08.x) without loss of jobs or other state > information" > > I first read "up to two major or minor updates" as meaning "two major or > *two* minor updates". However, am I correct in thinking that it means > "two major or *any number* minor updates"? > > Actually, in my case, I don't need to preserve state information, as no > jobs will be running at the time of the upgrade but I am using > SlurmDBD. Specifically I want to upgrade from version 2.4.5 to 14.11. > From the documentation I would assume that this upgrade can be done in a > single step. Is this correct? Any thoughts on this? Can I go directly from 2.4.5 to 14.11 and preserve the information in SlurmDBD if no jobs are running? Our maintenance downtime starts on Monday, so it would be helpful to know by then. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
