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

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 11/20/2014 04:25 AM, Vince Loschiavo wrote:
> I'm running 3.6.1 in pre-production right now.  So far so good.  No 
> critical bugs found.
What tests do you run?

Pranith
> Centos 6.5,
> QEMU/KVM
> Fuse Mount
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org 
> <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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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