<div dir="ltr">Thanks for all replies. Do all of the same restrictions apply to 4.1? We have an option of installing ESS with 4.1. If we install ESS with 4.1 can we then cross mount to 3.5 with FS version of 4.1? Also with 4.1 are there any issues with key exchange?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Damir</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:29 PM Sanchez, Paul <<a href="mailto:Paul.Sanchez@deshaw.com">Paul.Sanchez@deshaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You do have to keep an eye out for filesystem version issues as you set this up. If the new filesystem is created with a version higher than the 3.5 cluster’s
version, then the 3.5 cluster will not be able to mount it. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can specify the version of a new filesystem at creation time with, for example, “mmcrfs –version 3.5.<x.x>”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can confirm an existing filesystem’s version with “mmlsfs <filesystem> | grep version”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There are probably a pile of caveats about features that you can never get on the new filesystem though. If you don’t need high-bandwidth, parallel access
to the new filesystem from the 3.5 cluster, you could use CES or CNFS for a time, until the 3.5 cluster is upgraded or retired.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A possibly better recommendation would be to upgrade the 3.5 cluster to at least 4.1, if not 4.2, instead. It would continue to be able to serve any of your
old version filesystems, but not prohibit you from moving forward on the new ones.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I’ve never used ESS, but I state for a fact you can cross mount clusters at various levels without a problem – I do it all the time during upgrades. I’m not
aware of any co-exisitance problems with the 3.5 and above. Yo may be limited on 4.2 features when accessing it via the 3.5 cluster, but data access should work fine.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 3:31 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>gpfsug main discussion list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">We are deploying ESS with Spectrum Scale 4.2. Our compute cluster is running GPFS 3.5. We will remote cluster mount ESS to our compute cluster. When looking
at GPFS coexistance documents, it is not clear whether GPFS 3.5 cluster can remote mount GPFS 4.2. Does anyone know if there are any issues in remote mounting GPFS 4.2 cluster on 3.5 cluster?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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