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Re: Running DB servers with different levels of AFS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Markus Alt)
Wed Jun 27 08:59:18 2001

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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:51:22 +0200
From: Markus Alt <altmark@de.ibm.com>
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Sal Biancardi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We currently run our three AFS DB servers with AIX 432 and AFS 35.338.   We
> are planning to upgrade them to AIX 433 and AFS 35.352.
> 
> Does anyone know of any problems running the DB servers with mix levels of
> AFS (the two mentioned above)? Or problems with AFS 35.352 on DB servers?

I don't see any problems with this. But I would recommend to run the
same AFS *version* on the DB servers (i.e. not mix 3.5 and 3.6). We did
this once and ran into severe problems. (Meanwhile this recommendation
has been added to the documentation, IIRC.)

Cheers,
Markus

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Markus Alt
IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
altmark@de.ibm.com

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