[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] Please pause merging patches to 3.9 waiting for just one patch

[Shyam]

On 11/10/2016 10:21 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Manikandan Selvaganesh
> <manikandancs333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Enabling/disabling quota or removing limits are the ways in which quota.conf
>> is regenerated to the later version. It works properly. And as Pranith said,
>> both enabling/disabling takes a lot of time to crawl(though now much faster
>> with enhanced quota enable/disable process) which we cannot suggest the
>> users with a lot of quota configuration. Resetting the limit using
>> limit-usage does not work properly. I have tested the same. The workaround
>> is based on the user setup here. I mean the steps he exactly used in order
>> matters here. The workaround is not so generic. However, quota
>> enable/disable would regenerate the file on any case.
>>
>> IMO, this bug is critical. I am not sure though how often users would hit
>> this - Updating from 3.6 to latest versions. From 3.7 to latest, its fine,
>> this has nothing to do with this patch.
>>
>
> Given that we are done with the last release in 3.6.x, I think there
> would be users looking to upgrade.  My vote is to include the
> necessary patches in 3.9 and not let users go through unnatural
> workflows to get quota working again in 3.9.0.

<Comment is without knowing if the necessary patches are good to go>

Consider this a curiosity question ATM,

3.9 is an LTM, right? So we are not stating workflows here are set in 
stone? Can this not be an projected workflow?

>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
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