[Gluster-users] When will 3.6 be considered stable?

[Kingsley]

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 11:10 +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> On 2015-02-26 22:24, Justin Clift wrote:
> > On 26 Feb 2015, at 18:39, Kingsley <gluster at gluster.dogwind.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 23:27 +0200, aytac zeren wrote:
> >>> 3.6.2 is a major release and introduces some new features in cluster
> >>> wide concept. Additionally it is not stable yet.
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> When will 3.6 be considered stable? I'm waiting to deploy a cluster into
> >> a production environment. I've built a 3.6.2 cluster and have put a live
> >> copy of the data onto it, which took rsync a solid 2 weeks to do. 
>
> Isn't rsync about the worst to do in order to populate a gluster volume? Wouldn't
> it help to have multiple threads copying files in order not to have to wait for
> stat-calls to propagate back and forth between client and server(s)?

I had 3 rsync instances going at a time. I found that adding more than
this didn't really gain anything in terms of overall throughput.

2 instances significantly outperformed 1, and 3 instances slightly
outperformed 2.

It took 2 weeks with 3 rsyncs going.

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Cheers,
Kingsley.