[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Announcing Glusterfs release 3.12.2 (Long Term Maintenance)

Niels de Vos ndevos at redhat.com
Tue Dec 12 07:00:40 UTC 2017


Many thanks for testing, Alastair!

The glusterfs-3.12.3-1 packages have now been marked for release into
the normal gluster-3.12 repository of the CentOS Storage SIG. I expect
that the packages will land on the mirrors during the day tomorrow.

Niels


On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 04:24:21PM -0500, Alastair Neil wrote:
> Neil I  don;t know if this is adequate but I did run a simple smoke test
> today on the 3.12.3-1 bits.   I installed the 3.12.3-1 but on 3 fresh
> install Centos 7 VMs
> 
> created a 2G image  files and wrote a xfs files system on them on each
> system
> 
> mount each under /export/brick1,  and created /export/birck1/test  on each
> node.
> probes the two other systems from one node (a).  abd created a replica 3
> volume using the bricks at export/brick1/test on each node.
> 
> started the volume and mounted it under /mnt/gluster test on nodes a.
> 
> did some brief  tests using dd into the mount point on node a, all seemed
> fine - no errors nothing unexpected.
> 
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> On 23 October 2017 at 17:42, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:12:53PM -0400, Alastair Neil wrote:
> > > Any idea when these packages will be in the CentOS mirrors? there is no
> > > sign of them on download.gluster.org.
> >
> > We're waiting for someone other than me to test the new packages at
> > least a little. Installing the packages and run something on top of a
> > Gluster volume is already sufficient, just describe a bit what was
> > tested. Once a confirmation is sent that it works for someone, we can
> > mark the packages for releasing to the mirrors.
> >
> > Getting the (unsigned) RPMs is easy, run this on your test environment:
> >
> >   # yum --enablrepo=centos-gluster312-test update glusterfs
> >
> > This does not restart the brick processes so I/O is not affected with
> > the installation. Make sure to restart the processes (or just reboot)
> > and do whatever validation you deem sufficient.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On 13 October 2017 at 08:45, Jiffin Tony Thottan <jthottan at redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of Gluster
> > 3.12.2
> > > > (packages available at [1,2,3]).
> > > >
> > > > Release notes for the release can be found at [4].
> > > >
> > > > We still carry following major issues that is reported in the
> > > > release-notes as follows,
> > > >
> > > > 1.) - Expanding a gluster volume that is sharded may cause file
> > corruption
> > > >
> > > >     Sharded volumes are typically used for VM images, if such volumes
> > are
> > > > expanded or possibly contracted (i.e add/remove bricks and rebalance)
> > there
> > > > are reports of VM images getting corrupted.
> > > >
> > > >     The last known cause for corruption (Bug #1465123) has a fix with
> > this
> > > > release. As further testing is still in progress, the issue is
> > retained as
> > > > a major issue.
> > > >
> > > >     Status of this bug can be tracked here, #1465123
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2 .) Gluster volume restarts fail if the sub directory export feature
> > is
> > > > in use. Status of this issue can be tracked here, #1501315
> > > >
> > > > 3.) Mounting a gluster snapshot will fail, when attempting a FUSE based
> > > > mount of the snapshot. So for the current users, it is recommend to
> > only
> > > > access snapshot via
> > > >
> > > > ".snaps" directory on a mounted gluster volume. Status of this issue
> > can
> > > > be tracked here, #1501378
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >  Gluster community
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.12/3.12.2/
> > > > <https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.12/3.12.1/>
> > > > [2] https://launchpad.net/~gluster/+archive/ubuntu/glusterfs-3.12
> > > > <https://launchpad.net/%7Egluster/+archive/ubuntu/glusterfs-3.11>
> > > > [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/subprojects/home:glusterfs
> > > >
> > > > [4] Release notes: https://gluster.readthedocs.
> > > > io/en/latest/release-notes/3.12.2/
> > > > <https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes/3.11.3/>
> > > >
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