Nordgren, Bryce L -FS <bnordgren <at> fs.fed.us> writes:

> 
> Hi, 
>  
> Now that I have a fileserver with CentOS 7 on it, I was wondering if
> there were plans to build the current release for RHEL7/centos 7.
Yes there are and it almost has traveled through our internal validation
process. But that means that our subscription customers will have it
available hopefully in the next couple of weeks. As to the free download
there it won't land as we need to give people some incentive to also
allow us to make a living. The product seems to be to good to make
people pay the very modest subscription fee so this will eventually
also influence the development pace. A lot of people still don't get
the difference between Open Source and Freeware which is a pity.
That normally wouldn't be a big problem if we had a big community but
that takes time and the previous years don't help there as most people
have abandoned the whole Open Source bacula line.

> 
>  
> Failing that, what is the gap between “experimental” and the current
> release? How much is likely to break if I introduce an “experimental”
> file daemon into an ecosystem of “current release” directors and
> storage daemons?
The gap is quite big almost a year in new features. Then most features
are in the storage daemon and director and the bug fixes are backported
normally from the bleeding edge to the stable versions. So it might work
with the normal caveats that a newer version is normally not supported
with older daemons. Then again worst case it will blow up your client
and not the storage and director as the actual storage doesn't change.
Also experimental can contain bugs which we eventually iron out but as
of tomorrow it will have a new slew of features so that make things a
bit less stable.

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