[Lustre-discuss] 2.0.0.1 server with 1.8.x clients

2010-09-15 Thread Christos Theodosiou
Hi, we plan to use lustre 2.0.0.1 servers with some 1.8.x and 2.0.0.1 clients. Is there any known issues, that discourage this configuration? Regards Christos -- Christos Theodosiou Grid HPC Center Aristotle University 54 124 Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: +30 2310 99 8988 Fax: +30 2310 99 4309

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 2.0.0.1 server with 1.8.x clients

2010-09-15 Thread Fan Yong
Honestly, we do not suggest the mixed mode as you mentioned unless you have to for some special reasons. There are some known interoperability issues between lustre-1.8 and lustre-2.0. These are part of them in the list:

[Lustre-discuss] mixing server versions

2010-09-15 Thread Brock Palen
We have a filesystem that we can't take down for a while to upgrade the oss's they are running 1.6.x we do have a need to quickly add some storage to it, and thus the new server would have 1.8.x Is there any problems with this? I know 1.6.x isn't supported anymore and we would like to

Re: [Lustre-discuss] mixing server versions

2010-09-15 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-09-15, at 12:36, Brock Palen wrote: We have a filesystem that we can't take down for a while to upgrade the oss's they are running 1.6.x we do have a need to quickly add some storage to it, and thus the new server would have 1.8.x Is there any problems with this? I know 1.6.x

Re: [Lustre-discuss] mixing server versions

2010-09-15 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday, September 15, 2010, Andreas Dilger wrote: 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