[Gluster-users] [Gluster-infra] Which version of GlusterFS do you recommend?

[Vince Loschiavo]

I'm running 3.6.1 in pre-production right now.  So far so good.  No
critical bugs found.
Centos 6.5,
QEMU/KVM
Fuse Mount

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:

>
> On 11/19/2014 01:34 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:26:15 +0100
>> Andreas Hollaus <Andreas.Hollaus at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm curious about the different 'families' of GlusterFS (3.4, 3.5 &
>>> 3.6). What's the differences between them and how do I know which one
>>> will be most suitable for my application (depending on if I
>>> prioritize robustness or lots of features)?
>>>
>> Hmm, this is might help from the robustness/features perspective: :)
>>
>>   * 3.4.x series has been around for ages now, so is pretty battle
>>     tested.  We still release patch versions for this for important
>>     bugs which show up.
>>
> 3.4 has some, imho, critical known bugs with fixes that have already been
> applied to 3.5 and were not backported. For this lack of support I no
> longer recommend 3.4.
>
>>
>>   * 3.5.x series has been around a while as well, and is also pretty
>>     well tested by now.  It has more features / and several internal
>>     optimisations/improvements over the 3.4.x series.  We release
>>     patches for this series too for important bugs that show up.
>>
> This is the version I currently recommend.
>
>>
>>   * 3.6.x series just came out.  It's our latest and greatest feature
>>     set, but may be a bit "bleeding edge" until the next patch release
>>     (3.6.2), which should be coming out soon.
>>
> I'm still waiting on significant reports of success before I'll recommend
> 3.6. I also watch for bugs that can only be fixed in this release, or lack
> of support for prior releases, or significant improvements in usability
> before I upgrade my recommendations.
>
>>
>> This makes me realise we really need a version/features table on the
>> website, with ticks and crosses to show which version of GlusterFS
>> added what. :D
>>
>> + Justin
>>
>>
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-Vince Loschiavo
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