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

[James]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:19 PM, John Mark Walker <johnmark at gluster.org> wrote:
> ----- 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

Right! And in addition, the scripts and infrastructure I've developed
are agnostic to GlusterFS version... It can use anything from
download.gluster.org

It will also be able to do QA releases, once I know where those
packages are in a stable place.