[erlang-questions] Mnesia cluster across releases

[Daniel Dormont]

Hi all,

Can a Mnesia cluster exist across two OTP releases, specifically R15B
and R16B? I'm testing some upgrades here and seeing this error about
two minutes after trying to join a node running R16B to an existing
cluster running R15B:

=ERROR REPORT==== 2014-03-18 17:13:29 ===
Mnesia('ejabberd@REDACTED'): ** ERROR ** (core
dumped to file:
"/var/lib/ejabberd/MnesiaCore.ejabberd@REDACTED")
 ** FATAL ** Schema update error {{badmatch,
                                   {error,
                                    {bad_object_header,
                                     "/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT"}}},
                                  [{mnesia_dumper,dets_insert,4,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_dumper.erl"},{line,342}]},
                                   {mnesia_dumper,insert_cstruct,5,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_dumper.erl"},{line,1117}]},
                                   {mnesia_dumper,insert_ops,6,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_dumper.erl"},{line,309}]},
                                   {mnesia_dumper,perform_update,4,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_dumper.erl"},{line,292}]},
                                   {mnesia_dumper,update,3,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_dumper.erl"},{line,273}]},
                                   {mnesia_tm,do_commit,3,
                                    [{file,"mnesia_tm.erl"},{line,1780}]},
                                   {mnesia_tm,commit_participant,6,

[{file,"mnesia_tm.erl"},{line,1699}]}]} [{op,

       merge_schema,

       [{name,

... etc.

If not, are there strategies for dealing with such an upgrade? Or is
this caused by something else entirely?

Thanks,
Dan