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

[Nithya Balachandran]

On 6 November 2018 at 12:24, 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
>
>
3.13 is EOL. It was a short term release.

Which is more stable 3.13.2 or 3.12.6 or 4.1.5?
>
> 3.12 is also EOL now that 5 is out.


> 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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