Very nice. Thanks for the info. I plan to go with 3.12 for now, then upgrade to CentOS 7 later. c On 06/18/2018 08:36 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > 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 at 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/ >