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Example 2: Servers have two tcp networks and one Elan network. Clients are either<br />

TCP or Elan.<br />

Servers: options lnet 'networks="tcp0(eth0,eth1),elan0"<br />

Elan clients: options lnet networks=elan0<br />

TCP clients: options lnet networks=tcp0<br />

Portals Compatibility<br />

If you are upgrading <strong>Lustre</strong> on all clients and servers at the same time, then you may<br />

skip this section.<br />

If you need to keep the filesystem running while some clients are upgraded, the<br />

following module parameter controls interoperability with pre-1.4.6 <strong>Lustre</strong>.<br />

Compatibility between versions is not possible if you are using portals<br />

routers/gateways. If you use gateways, you must update the clients, gateways, and<br />

servers at the same time.<br />

portals_compatibility="strong"|"weak"|"none"<br />

"strong" is compatible with <strong>Lustre</strong> 1.4.5, and 1.4.6 running in either 'strong' or 'weak'<br />

compatibility mode.<br />

Since this is the only mode compatible with 1.4.5, all 1.4.6 nodes in the cluster must<br />

use "strong" until the last 1.4.5 node has been upgraded.<br />

"weak" is not compatible with 1.4.5, or with 1.4.6 running in "none" mode.<br />

"none" is not compatible with 1.4.5, or with 1.4.6 running in 'strong' mode.<br />

For more information, see Upgrading <strong>Lustre</strong> on page 117.<br />

Note – <strong>Lustre</strong> v.1.4.2 through v.1.4.5 clients are only compatible zero-conf mounting<br />

from a 1.4.6 MDS if the MDS was originally formatted with <strong>Lustre</strong> 1.4.5 or earlier. If<br />

the filesystem was formatted with v.1.4.6 on the MDS, or "lconf --write-conf" was run<br />

on the MDS then the backward compatibility is lost. It is still possible to mount 1.4.2<br />

through 1.4.5 clients with "lconf --node {client_node} {config}.xml".<br />

D-24 <strong>Lustre</strong> <strong>1.6</strong> <strong>Operations</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> • September 2008

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