[Gluster-users] Should I be using gluster 3 or gluster 4?

[Jeevan Patnaik]

Hi,

We are doing production deployment ande I have tested 3.12.4 and found okay
to proceed. But we have decided to use tiering feature at the last minute.
But something is not right or missing with tiering feature in 3.12.4 and
hence, I'm thinking of using higher versions which may have fixed bugs with
tiering. But we don't have enough time to test it completely for other
possible issues for production deployment. So, I'm checking for a safest
version with stable tiering feature.

Consolidating the files to a backup storage and restoring them is not
efficient or feasible option for us, as we have terabytes of small file
data which can take huge times..so, downgrading or upgrading is something
we can't do so often but only with a scheduled downtime. Hence, trying
version 5 and falling back is not preferred option for us.


Regards,
Jeevan.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 12:24 PM Jeevan Patnaik <g1patnaik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vlad,
>
> I'm still confused of gluster releases. :(
> Is 3.13 an official gluster release? It's not mentioned in
> www.gluster.org/release-schedule
>
> Which is more stable 3.13.2 or 3.12.6 or 4.1.5?
>
> 3.13.2 was released in Jan and no minor releases since then..So, I expect
> it's a stable release. or maybe noone has used it enough to report bugs?
>
> I understand we may see bugs even in the most stable version while using
> it. I'm looking for a version thats safe to use with least chance of
> corrupting or loosing our files.
>
> I'm set to test 3.13.2 tiering feature, but have my thoughts about if
> 3.12.6 or 4.1.5 should be tested instead.
>
> Regards,
> Jeevan.
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2018 5:11 AM, "Vlad Kopylov" <vladkopy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you doing replica - start with 5, run your load on it. You can always
> fallback to 3.12 or 4. It is not like your files will be gone.
> With distributed might be harder, files will still be on the bricks but
> you will have to consolidate them or copy in to new volume after downgrade.
> Documentation is all the same.
>
>
> v
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 2:54 AM Jeevan Patnaik <g1patnaik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vlad,
>>
>> Can gluster 4.1.5 too be used for production? There's no documentation
>> for gluster 4.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jeevan.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:37 AM Vlad Kopylov <vladkopy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 3.12.14 working fine in production for file access
>>> you can find vol and mount settings in mailing list archive
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:05 AM Jeevan Patnaik <g1patnaik at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I see gluster 3 has reached end of life and gluster 5 has just been
>>>> introduced.
>>>>
>>>> Is gluster 4.1.5 stable enough for production deployment? I see by
>>>> default gluster docs point  to v3  only  and there  are no gluster docs
>>>> for 4 or 5.  Why so? And I'm mainly looking for a stable gluster tiering
>>>> feature and Kernek NFS support. I faced few issues with tiering in 3.14 and
>>>> so thinking if I should switch to 4.1.5, as it will be a production
>>>> deployment.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jeevan.
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