[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions

Tue Jul 23 23:47:50 UTC 2019

Hello,

I see references to fixes for thin-arbiter on the 6.x release notes. Does
that mean thin-arbiter is ready to use on glusterfs 6 please?

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:42, Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com> wrote:

> The committing should happen a little earlier than 10th. The tagging is
> the one which decides if the patch makes it to the release or not and
> tagging happens before 10th. We do announce the tagging date for each
> release in the mailing list. You can keep an eye on that to know the dates.
> And committing in master won't be enough for it to make it to a release. If
> it has to be a part of release 6 then after being committed into master we
> have to back port it to the release 6 branch and it should get committed in
> that particular branch as well. Only then it will be a part of the package
> released for that branch.
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun, 2019, 4:24 AM David Cunningham, <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hari,
>>
>> Thanks for that information. So if I understand correctly, if
>> thin-arbiter is committed to the master branch by the 10th July, then it
>> should be in the CentOS package fairly soon afterwards?
>>
>> I have a customer asking when we can use it, hence the questions. Thank
>> you.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 17:24, Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Once a feature is added to the master branch, we have to back port it to
>>> the release 5, 6 and other such branches which are active. And these
>>> release branches will be tagged every month around 10th. So if an feature
>>> has been back ported to the particular release branch before tagging, then
>>> it will be a part of the tagging. And this tag is the one used for creating
>>> packaging. This is the procedure for CentOS, Fedora and Debian.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hari.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Jun, 2019, 4:06 AM David Cunningham, <
>>> dcunningham at voisonics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for that. I guess it's not your responsibility, but do you know
>>>> how often it typically takes for new versions to reach the CentOS package
>>>> system after being released?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 17:15, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>
>>>>> It should be any time soon as we are in last phase of patch reviews.
>>>>> You can follow this patch -
>>>>> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>> *To: *"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 11, 2019 9:55:40 AM
>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ashish and Amar,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any news on when thin-arbiter might be in the regular
>>>>> GlusterFS, and the CentOS packages please?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 20:34, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>> *To: *"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>>> *Sent: *Monday, May 6, 2019 1:40:30 PM
>>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for the update. Does that mean they're now in the regular
>>>>>> Glusterfs? Any idea how long it typically takes the Ubuntu and CentOS
>>>>>> packages  to be updated with the latest code?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, for regular glusterd, work is still in progress. It will be done
>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>> I don't have answer for the next question. May be Amar have
>>>>>> information regarding this. Adding him in CC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 18:21, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can see that Amar has already committed the changes and those are
>>>>>>> visible on
>>>>>>> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>> *From: *"Strahil" <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>
>>>>>>> *To: *"Ashish" <aspandey at redhat.com>, "David" <
>>>>>>> dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>>> *Cc: *"gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>>>>>> *Sent: *Saturday, May 4, 2019 12:10:01 AM
>>>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ashish,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can someone commit the doc change I have already proposed ?
>>>>>>> At least, the doc will clarify that fact .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>> Strahil Nikolov
>>>>>>> On May 3, 2019 05:30, Ashish Pandey <aspandey at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Creation of thin-arbiter volume is currently supported by GD2 only.
>>>>>>> The command "glustercli" is available when glusterd2 is running.
>>>>>>> We are also working on providing thin-arbiter support on glusted
>>>>>>> however, it is not available right now.
>>>>>>> https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22612/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Ashish
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>> *From: *"David Cunningham" <dcunningham at voisonics.com>
>>>>>>> *To: *gluster-users at gluster.org
>>>>>>> *Sent: *Friday, May 3, 2019 7:40:03 AM
>>>>>>> *Subject: *[Gluster-users] Thin-arbiter questions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are setting up a thin-arbiter and hope someone can help with some
>>>>>>> questions. We've been following the documentation from
>>>>>>> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Thin-Arbiter-Volumes/
>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. What release of 5.x supports thin-arbiter? We tried a "gluster
>>>>>>> volume create" with the --thin-arbiter option on 5.5 and got an
>>>>>>> "unrecognized option --thin-arbiter" error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. The instruction to create a new volume with a thin-arbiter is
>>>>>>> clear. How do you add a thin-arbiter to an already existing volume though?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3. The documentation suggests running glusterfsd manually to start
>>>>>>> the thin-arbiter. Is there a service that can do this instead? I found a
>>>>>>> mention of one in
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579786 but it's not
>>>>>>> really documented.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> David Cunningham, Voisonics Limited
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>>
>

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