On May 21, 2019, at 10:15, Tauferner, Andrew T
wrote:
>
> Is it okay to run Lustre 2.12.x kernel modules on clients that are part of a
> 2.10.x Lustre installation? What I mean is that the servers and the clients
> have installed version 2.10.x RPMs. For what it’s worth, this seems to work
> okay.
Lustre releases are tested against the next higher/lower release for
clients/servers, as well as the previous LTS release. In this case, 2.10 and
2.12 are expected to work together without issues. While it is possible for a
wider range of versions to interoperate (e.g. some people have tested/used 2.5
and 2.10 together), we do not test this due to limits on our testing resources.
> The alternative is to keep using the 2.6.99 vintage Lustre kernel modules
> that come with kernel.org kernels with the 2.10.x software.
The in-kernel version is not really tested and is not recommended for use.
> I’d really like to get all Lustre code to the 2.12 version but I’m not sure
> that I can convince our cluster administrator of that. Thanks.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Lustre Architect
Whamcloud
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