On 06/18/2018 08:08 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote:

I'm a little confused about  the state of glusterfs-server on CentOS 6. It isn't supported with gluster 4, the current recommended version of gluster.

There are no glusterfs-server-4.x packages provided for CentOS6[1].

Besides the usual "run the latest version" advice, I'm not sure who is saying GlusterFS-4.x is recommended. My advice — when you're setting up a new cluster — is to install the latest available version for your platform.

I have an existing server with glusterfs-server 3.8.15-1 which had a hard drive crash.  So I'd like to rebuild the gluster environment on that server.  I see that centos-release-gluster38 is available, but I read some- where that it is no longer supported.

That's correct. GlusterFS-3.8 reached EOL on 2017-08-30[2]. That simply means that if you have non-trivial problems with it, the first (only) suggestion will be to update to a newer, supported, version.

Also centos-release-gluster312 is available, but I don't see any indication that it is still supported.

GlusterFS-3.12 has not reached EOL yet[2].

Is the SIG providing any ongoing support beyond that which is provided by the gluster project?

The SIG only distributes RPMs, it does not provide support. _Support_ for community/upstream GlusterFS is available on the mailing list, mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org, and on IRC in #gluster on Freenode.

What is the current recommendation of the storage sig for running glusterfs-server on CentOS 6?

GlusterFS-3.12 is the only full, non-EOL version of GlusterFS for CentOS 6. [2] hasn't been updated yet to reflect that GlusterFS-3.10 has reached EOL; even so, you can still install it, subject to the same limitations outlined above.

[1] https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Install-Guide/Community_Packages/ [2] https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:08:12AM -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote:

I'm a little confused about  the state of glusterfs-server on CentOS 6. It isn't supported with gluster 4, the current recommended version of gluster.

I have an existing server with glusterfs-server 3.18.15-1 which had a hard drive crash.  So I'd like to rebuild the gluster environment on that server.  I see that centos-release-gluster38 is available, but I read some- where that it is no longer supported.  Also centos-release-gluster312 is available, but I don't see any indication that it is still supported.

Is the SIG providing any ongoing support beyond that which is provided by the gluster project?

What is the current recommendation of the storage sig for running glusterfs-server on CentOS 6?

The supported releases are on https://www.gluster.org/community/release-schedule/

You are correct that with Gluster 4.0 there is no more support for glusterfs-server on CentOS-6. The client packages will stay available for the next Gluster 4.x releases.

On CentOS-6 the recommendation is to use the packages from the repositories provided by centos-release-gluster312.

Feel free to give a recommendation on how the support of the different versions can be explained/documented (better).

HTH, Niels