[OpenAFS] 1.6 prerelease client with 1.4 servers

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:20:23 -0700


Aaron Knister <aaronk@umbc.edu> writes:

> Does anyone foresee any issues or know of any potential gotchas with
> using the latest 1.6 prerelease client with 1.4 servers? We discovered a
> deadlock issue in the AFS client on Solaris that was recently patched,
> however the patch was to 1.6 not 1.4 and back-porting the patch to 1.4
> doesn't immediately appear to be trivial.

No, it's fine.  I've been running that way for quite some time now.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>