The key point is that you must create the file system so that is "looks" like a 3.5 file system. See mmcrfs ... --version. Tip: create or find a test filesystem back on the 3.5 cluster and look at the version string. mmslfs xxx -V. Then go to the 4.x system and try to create a file system with the same version string.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160316/0f9d3ca3/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 21994 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160316/0f9d3ca3/attachment.gif>