On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > As *we* all are aware, striped volumes should not be used anymore. The > replacement for this is sharding, available and stable since the latest > 3.7 releases and 3.8. Unfortunately users still create striped volumes, > and some even write blog posts with examples. > > Can we do more blog posts recommending not to do this? :D > We should actively recommend users not to use striping anymore. This is > a proposal to remove the striping xlator from the GlusterFS sources over > the next two releases: > > - 3.9: prevent creation of new striped volumes, warn in the client logs > when striping is used > > - 3.10/4.0: remove the stripe xlator completely from the sources > > > In order to keep track of these steps, I have now filed two bugs: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1364706 - point 1 above > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1364706 - point 2 above > > https://github.com/gluster/glusterweb/pull/96 is the pull request to get > this added to the 3.9 roadmap. > > I'll go ahead and add this to the website, not sure if we need a feature page for this. Thanks for this! --amye > I am not sure yet how (if?) to create a feature page for this. > Suggestions and ideas about that are welcome. > Thanks, > Niels > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Amye Scavarda | [email protected] | Gluster Community Lead
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