[Gluster-users] centos-gluster variant/spin, a potential?

[John Mark Walker]

----- Original Message -----
> >
> > Probably by the end of today or so I'll be releasing the long
> > requested "Automatic GlusterFS deployments". I'd recommend against
> > offering up static iso's, since this solution is a lot nicer, and a
> > lot less bandwidth heavy for downloads. You can set how many hosts to
> > build, and so on, all from one base image and my scripts. If you
> > really want iso's, you can use this system to save them and put them
> > up for download.
> >
> 
> I don't know if i can agree - your work is completely okay to co-exist
> with an ISO.  But  there is a problem here with version numbers for
> GlusterFS.

Er... that's a separate issue from what james is saying. 

> 
> GlusterFS in community versions are 3.4.x (i.e there are releases
> based on minor version changes) as we did
> 
> 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.4.2 releases ... and so on.
> 
> Red Hat Storage Server version is based on point releases ie. pick a
> release/standardize and then back port patches.
> 
> 3.4.0.33, 3.4.0.44 .. releases and so on.

If there is demand for this, we'll have to figure out how to avoid namespace collisions, because as you mentioned, it will be confusing. 

-JM