[OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 prerelease client with 1.4 servers
Aaron Knister
aaronk@umbc.edu
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:07:47 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net>wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:17:27 -0400
> Aaron Knister <aaronk@umbc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone foresee any issues or know of any potential gotchas with
> > using the latest 1.6 prerelease client with 1.4 servers?
>
> No, but there have been several recent Rx fixes on the 1.6 branch, so
> you might be better off with the head of 1.6.x.
>
> > 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.
>
> It's not trivial, but it's also not hard and it's already been done. If
> you want the 1.4 version of that fix, get it here:
> <http://gerrit.openafs.org/4928> or
> <
> http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cdf311d8d01235ffd7548e3f0534c46af2dddf6
> >
>
>
Wow.. you guys are seriously on the ball. Thanks!
> --
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net
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Aaron Knister
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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<div>On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Andrew Deason <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a=
href=3D"mailto:adeason@sinenomine.net">adeason@sinenomine.net</a>></spa=
n> wrote:</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote"=
style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class=3D"im">On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:17:27 -0400<br>
Aaron Knister <<a href=3D"mailto:aaronk@umbc.edu">aaronk@umbc.edu</a>>=
; wrote:<br>
<br>
> Does anyone foresee any issues or know of any potential gotchas with<b=
r>
> using the latest 1.6 prerelease client with 1.4 servers?<br>
<br>
</div>No, but there have been several recent Rx fixes on the 1.6 branch, so=
<br>
you might be better off with the head of 1.6.x.<br>
<div class=3D"im"><br>
> We discovered a deadlock issue in the AFS client on Solaris that was<b=
r>
> recently patched, however the patch was to 1.6 not 1.4 and<br>
> back-porting the patch to 1.4 doesn't immediately appear to be<br>
> trivial.<br>
<br>
</div>It's not trivial, but it's also not hard and it's already=
been done. If<br>
you want the 1.4 version of that fix, get it here:<br>
<<a href=3D"http://gerrit.openafs.org/4928" target=3D"_blank">http://ger=
rit.openafs.org/4928</a>> or<br>
<<a href=3D"http://git.openafs.org/?p=3Dopenafs.git;a=3Dcommitdiff_plain=
;h=3D6cdf311d8d01235ffd7548e3f0534c46af2dddf6" target=3D"_blank">http://git=
.openafs.org/?p=3Dopenafs.git;a=3Dcommitdiff_plain;h=3D6cdf311d8d01235ffd75=
48e3f0534c46af2dddf6</a>><br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><meta c=
harset=3D"utf-8">Wow.. you guys are seriously on the ball.=A0Thanks!</div><=
div>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;b=
order-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color=3D"#888888">
--<br>
Andrew Deason<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:adeason@sinenomine.net">adeason@sinenomine.net</a><br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Aaron Knister<br=
>Systems Administrator<br>Division of Information Technology<br>University =
of Maryland, Baltimore County<br><a href=3D"mailto:aaronk@umbc.edu" target=
=3D"_blank">aaronk@umbc.edu</a><br>
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