[Gluster-users] [Gluster-infra] Which version of GlusterFS do you recommend?

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 11/20/2014 09:28 PM, Vince Loschiavo wrote:
> I do a basic series of tests after upgrade including:
>
> This process takes about a day or so to burn in.
>
> -bonnie++
> -failover, shutdown of bricks
> -self-heal after simulated brick failure
> -Test VMs - similar to those running in production - run unit tests 
> against those VMs
> -bonnie++ inside VMs and compare results to previous run.
Nice testing, looks very good to me. You don't expand volume? i.e. 
add-brick/rebalance?

Pranith
>
> I'm open to suggestions on other tests though.
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri 
> <pkarampu at redhat.com <mailto:pkarampu at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 11/20/2014 04:25 AM, Vince Loschiavo wrote:
>>     I'm running 3.6.1 in pre-production right now.  So far so good. 
>>     No critical bugs found.
>     What tests do you run?
>
>     Pranith
>
>>     Centos 6.5,
>>     QEMU/KVM
>>     Fuse Mount
>>
>>     On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org
>>     <mailto:joe at julianfamily.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         On 11/19/2014 01:34 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
>>
>>             On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:26:15 +0100
>>             Andreas Hollaus <Andreas.Hollaus at ericsson.com
>>             <mailto:Andreas.Hollaus at ericsson.com>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Hi,
>>
>>                 I'm curious about the different 'families' of
>>                 GlusterFS (3.4, 3.5 &
>>                 3.6). What's the differences between them and how do
>>                 I know which one
>>                 will be most suitable for my application (depending
>>                 on if I
>>                 prioritize robustness or lots of features)?
>>
>>             Hmm, this is might help from the robustness/features
>>             perspective: :)
>>
>>               * 3.4.x series has been around for ages now, so is
>>             pretty battle
>>                 tested.  We still release patch versions for this for
>>             important
>>                 bugs which show up.
>>
>>         3.4 has some, imho, critical known bugs with fixes that have
>>         already been applied to 3.5 and were not backported. For this
>>         lack of support I no longer recommend 3.4.
>>
>>
>>               * 3.5.x series has been around a while as well, and is
>>             also pretty
>>                 well tested by now.  It has more features / and
>>             several internal
>>                 optimisations/improvements over the 3.4.x series.  We
>>             release
>>                 patches for this series too for important bugs that
>>             show up.
>>
>>         This is the version I currently recommend.
>>
>>
>>               * 3.6.x series just came out.  It's our latest and
>>             greatest feature
>>                 set, but may be a bit "bleeding edge" until the next
>>             patch release
>>                 (3.6.2), which should be coming out soon.
>>
>>         I'm still waiting on significant reports of success before
>>         I'll recommend 3.6. I also watch for bugs that can only be
>>         fixed in this release, or lack of support for prior releases,
>>         or significant improvements in usability before I upgrade my
>>         recommendations.
>>
>>
>>             This makes me realise we really need a version/features
>>             table on the
>>             website, with ticks and crosses to show which version of
>>             GlusterFS
>>             added what. :D
>>
>>             + Justin
>>
>>
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>>     -Vince Loschiavo
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