[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 5: Branched and further dates

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 10/04/2018 12:01 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>     4) This bug [2] was filed when we released 4.0.
> 
>     The issue has not bitten us in 4.0 or in 4.1 (yet!) (i.e the options
>     missing and hence post-upgrade clients failing the mount). This is
>     possibly the last chance to fix it.
> 
>     Glusterd and protocol maintainers, can you chime in, if this bug needs
>     to be and can be fixed? (thanks to @anoopcs for pointing it out to me)
> 
> 
> This is a bad bug to live with. OTOH, I do not have an immediate
> solution in my mind on how to make sure (a) these options when
> reintroduced are made no-ops, especially they will be disallowed to tune
> (with out dirty option check hacks at volume set staging code) . If
> we're to tag RC1 tomorrow, I wouldn't be able to take a risk to commit
> this change.
> 
> Can we actually have a note in our upgrade guide to document that if
> you're upgrading to 4.1 or higher version make sure to disable these
> options before the upgrade to mitigate this?

Yes, adding this to the "Major Issues" section in the release notes as
well as noting it in the upgrade guide is possible. I will go with this
option for now, as we do not have complaints around this from 4.0/4.1
releases (which have the same issue as well).