Client side support for 3.7 natively or through compatibility with the 3.6 on Precise would be great. We have a few RHSS servers, which will presumably get upgraded to GlusterFS3.7 around the end of the year. We have a bunch of Precise clients which are right now using the 3.5 client from the ppa. If their life can be stretched for another year or so by 3.6/3.7 client ppas, that would be much appreciated.
Minor note: The official glusterfs documentation mentions ppa:semiosis/ubuntu-glusterfs-3.5 as the ppa for ubuntu. It looks like this was taken down sometime last month. I guess https://launchpad.net/~gluster has the official ppas now ? Since there was another thread about documentation, it would be a good idea to edit this. Also, why was the old ppa was taken down completely as opposed to making it a mirror of the newer ones ? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As you might have noticed, we're getting quite well along with the > upcoming 3.7 release. There are many new features and improvements, but > these also require additional dependencies on the Linux (and other OS) > distributions. > > Because keeping support for older operating systems is quite time > consuming, we would like to reduce the supported versions of operating > systems. Some of the issues that we already noticed: > > - RHEL-5 (and clones) do not have all dependencies for the -server > components (already no geo-replication on EL5). > > - Ubuntu Precise has an old RDMA stack, potential other too old versions > of packages too (already an issue with 3.6.2). > > We try to have the glusterfs-3.6 client-side protocol compatible with > the 3.7 server-side, but we can not guarantee that this stays possible > longterm. > > We need to know who is planning to deploy GlusterFS 3.7 (on modern > distributions) and would require access over the native/fuse (not > NFS/Samba) protocol to the 3.7 servers. If there is very little > interest, and no strong demand, we will likely not provide glusterfs-3.7 > packages for these older distributions. > > I would like to remind everyone that when GlusterFS 3.7 gets released, > version 3.4 will become unmaintained and updating to 3.5 or newer should > get planned rather sooner than later. Version 3.5 will be maintained > until 4.0 (or 3.8?) gets released, which is not planned for this year > anymore. > > If you have a strong desire for GlusterFS 3.7 clients on older > distributions, contact us as soon as possible (definitely within the > next two/three weeks) so that we can look into the matter. Please > respond to this list with your explanation and requirements, or if that > is not suitable for whatever reason, email me directly. > > Thanks, > Niels > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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