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

Vince Loschiavo vloschiavo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 15:58:50 UTC 2014


I do a basic series of tests after upgrade including:

This process takes about a day or so to burn in.

-bonnie++
-failover, shutdown of bricks
-self-heal after simulated brick failure
-Test VMs - similar to those running in production - run unit tests against
those VMs
-bonnie++ inside VMs and compare results to previous run.

I'm open to suggestions on other tests though.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <
pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> 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> 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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