[Gluster-devel] Deprecation of striped volumes as 'feature' for 3.9

[Amye Scavarda]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As *we* all are aware, striped volumes should not be used anymore. The
> replacement for this is sharding, available and stable since the latest
> 3.7 releases and 3.8. Unfortunately users still create striped volumes,
> and some even write blog posts with examples.
>
> Can we do more blog posts recommending not to do this? :D


> We should actively recommend users not to use striping anymore. This is
> a proposal to remove the striping xlator from the GlusterFS sources over
> the next two releases:
>
>  - 3.9: prevent creation of new striped volumes, warn in the client logs
>         when striping is used
>
>  - 3.10/4.0: remove the stripe xlator completely from the sources
>
>
> In order to keep track of these steps, I have now filed two bugs:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1364706 - point 1 above
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1364706 - point 2 above
>
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterweb/pull/96 is the pull request to get
> this added to the 3.9 roadmap.
>
> I'll go ahead and add this to the website, not sure if we need a feature
page for this.

Thanks for this!
--amye



> I am not sure yet how (if?) to create a feature page for this.
> Suggestions and ideas about that are welcome.


>
Thanks,
> Niels
>
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Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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