> On Mar 5, 2016, at 8:13, Dirk Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to try out FIFO (after installing SDC and seeing how huge it is). > > So I went ahead and was about to install when I read: > > "The latest Platform Image that is supported is 20160204T080230Z" > > I am running joyent_20160304T005100Z and do not want to downgrade my > hypervisor > platform for trying out FIFO. There is also a specific commit in > 20160218T022556Z > that I need. Are there known problems with recent platforms? There are no known issues with knower PI’s they simply are not tested and in the past there have beens situations where interfaces changed and broke FiFo. > Why would I need an old platform image? The supported PI is determined by ‘what PI was recent when testing began’. > What if I ignore this and install on a new PI anyway? You will be promoted and told you run on a non tested PI and asked if you are sure you know what you are doing. > Will there be any dire consequences? I will send my ninjamonkeyrobot army after you, and if you have bad luck something after 2060204 changed and you’ll have a bad experience.
Basically we use supported images to improve the user experience, think of it as “recommended hardware” when you run an application. Sure you can run windows 10 on really old PC but the experience you get might not be as Microsoft designed it to be. > > On a related note I noticed that the base dataset for FIFO 0.8.0 (released > today) > is from 2014. There are many more recent releases from Joyent including > the current LTS release 15.4.0. For my curiosity: what is the reason for the > ancient dataset? The 15.4 images introduces a new libncurses wich makes running the same build on 14.x and 15.x impossible, while new and shiny is good for us stability it is more important. We have installations that are running for over three years now and the pain of moving to a 15.x image would be serious at this point. However 0.8.0 introduces some concepts that will make this possible in the future, 0.8.1 is planned to be using a newer image as the update procedure going forward will be easier. > > Cheers > Dirk > > Am Samstag, 5. März 2016 02:02:42 UTC+1 schrieb Heinz N. Gies: > We're happy to release Project-FiFo 0.8.0, > this update comes with some big changes which will make the path onword > easyer. All data will be stored in a delegate dataset so that going forward > the procedure of updating will be as easy as redeploying a dataset, packages > will keep existing and continue to be used for patch updates. The default > backand changes from leveldb to rocksdb, reducing the overall memory > footprint. > > Furthermore we introduce fifo_dns, dynamic DNS for zones and vm's in fifo. > This goes along with a lot of small improvement and fixes as usual. > > Since this upgrade is more complicate, make sure to read the upgrade > documentation[1]! We will provide hands on help for support customers. > > > Cheers, > Heinz > > [1] https://docs.project-fifo.net/v0.8.0/docs/upgrading-fifo#section-0-8-0 > <https://docs.project-fifo.net/v0.8.0/docs/upgrading-fifo#section-0-8-0> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project FiFo" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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