The "Upgrades" section of the quick-start guide [0] warns:
> Slurm permits upgrades to a new major release from the past two major > releases, which happen every nine months (e.g. 20.02.x or 20.11.x to > 21.08.x) without loss of jobs or other state information. State > information from older versions will not be recognized and will be > discarded, resulting in loss of all running and pending jobs. We are planning for an upgrade from 17.02.11 to 21.08.2. As a part of our upgrade procedure we'd be bringing the scheduler to full stop, so the loss of running and pending jobs would not be a concern. Is there anything more to state information than running and pending jobs? For example, would the JobID count revert to 1 in the case of such an upgrade? [0] https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html#upgrade -- Nathan Smith Research Systems Engineer Advanced Computing Center Oregon Health & Science University
