On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 22:39 +0530, Ravishankar N wrote:> > On 07/15/2015 09:22 PM, Scott Harvanek wrote: > > I saw Ravi mention something earlier about the new arbiter volumes in 3.7 > > > > - Can you run a arbiter 3.7 server volume with 3.6 clients? Or does > > this not work? > > > > > > Unfortunately, no. This is because the logic for the feature is mostly > in the AFR translator which is loaded on the client process (with some > minor logic in the arbiter translator loaded on the brick process). So > both clients and servers need to be 3.7.Is there any harm in running 3.6 clients with a 3.7 cluster? We're currently running 3.6.3 and if we upgrade the cluster to 3.7 at some point it would be nice to know whether we can upgrade the clients in a separate step (given that we have a reasonable number of them). -- Cheers, Kingsley.
On 07/16/2015 04:31 PM, Kingsley wrote:> On Wed, 2015-07-15 at 22:39 +0530, Ravishankar N wrote: >> On 07/15/2015 09:22 PM, Scott Harvanek wrote: >>> I saw Ravi mention something earlier about the new arbiter volumes in 3.7 >>> >>> - Can you run a arbiter 3.7 server volume with 3.6 clients? Or does >>> this not work? >>> >>> >> Unfortunately, no. This is because the logic for the feature is mostly >> in the AFR translator which is loaded on the client process (with some >> minor logic in the arbiter translator loaded on the brick process). So >> both clients and servers need to be 3.7. > Is there any harm in running 3.6 clients with a 3.7 cluster?No harm if you are not using arbiter volumes. -Ravi> > We're currently running 3.6.3 and if we upgrade the cluster to 3.7 at > some point it would be nice to know whether we can upgrade the clients > in a separate step (given that we have a reasonable number of them). >