[Gluster-users] 3.7.16 with sharding corrupts VMDK files when adding and removing bricks

[David Gossage]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Kevin Lemonnier <lemonnierk at ulrar.net>
wrote:

> >
> > On the other hand at home, I tried to use GlusterFS for VM images in a
> > simple replica 2 setup with Pacemaker for HA. VMs were constantly
> > failing en masse even without making any changes. Very often the images
> > got corrupted and had to be restored from backups. This was over a year
> > ago but motivated me to try the VMs on MooseFS. Since then I've not had
>
> Yeah, there has been a lot of bad versions for VM, anything < 3.7.12 has
> either huge heal problems or random corruption at runtime. That's why
> I keep 3.7.12 everywhere, I know it works well at least with my config,
> and since I have no use for the new feature why take the risk to update ?
>
> Interesting comments on MooseFS, I've seen it but never tried it yet
> because of the single server managing the cluster, seems like a huge
> risk. Guess there must be ways to have that role failover or something.
>
>
I've locked myself more or less into the version of 3.8 I am running on as
well right now  as I just don't feel inclined to have to worry if anything
in an update will give me issues.

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