[Gluster-users] 3.7 Arbiter and/or quorum

[Kingsley]

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).

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Cheers,
Kingsley.