[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] 3.7.10 known issue

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 04/04/2016 11:10 PM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:19:30PM +0530, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/04/2016 07:43 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/04/2016 06:53 PM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/2016 09:11 AM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>>> On 04/04/2016 07:41 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:56:45AM +0530, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Kaushal,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We hit a regression yesterday where GlusterD fails to restart when the
>>>>>>> volume has snapshots. Refer to [1] for more details. The work around is
>>>>>>> also a bit tedious where each snapshot brick folders have to be created
>>>>>>> manually and I don't think see any other alternative workaround here.
>> One correction here, the issue is seen only when the node reboots, not
>> glusterd. Considering that users won't reboot machines often, we can
>> still live with it for the next scheduled release?
> 
> No, I do not think that is acceptible. Many users will install updates
> and do a reboot after that. Even having just a few users rebooting and
> rendering their deployment unusable is a huge problem.
Ok, but I was wondering how many users use snapshot? I've seen almost no
emails related to snapshot issues in gluster-users mailing list. Anyways
I don't have any issue in releasing 3.7.11 early.
> 
> Niels
> 
>> I'll be working on
>> the release note to put down the work around.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IMO, we should mention this as known issue in the release note for 3.7.10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This sounds serious enough to not package 3.7.10 and have users update
>>>>>> to it automatically.
>>>>>
>>>>> That djinni is already out of the bottle.
>>>>
>>>> If there's a fix available then it seems (to me) that a better path
>>>> forward is to release 3.7.11 quickly.
>>> Patch http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13869 is under review.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Kaleb
>>>>
>>>>
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