<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gluster">https://launchpad.net/~gluster</a> 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 ? </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Niels de Vos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndevos@redhat.com" target="_blank">ndevos@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
As you might have noticed, we're getting quite well along with the<br>
upcoming 3.7 release. There are many new features and improvements, but<br>
these also require additional dependencies on the Linux (and other OS)<br>
distributions.<br>
<br>
Because keeping support for older operating systems is quite time<br>
consuming, we would like to reduce the supported versions of operating<br>
systems. Some of the issues that we already noticed:<br>
<br>
- RHEL-5 (and clones) do not have all dependencies for the -server<br>
components (already no geo-replication on EL5).<br>
<br>
- Ubuntu Precise has an old RDMA stack, potential other too old versions<br>
of packages too (already an issue with 3.6.2).<br>
<br>
We try to have the glusterfs-3.6 client-side protocol compatible with<br>
the 3.7 server-side, but we can not guarantee that this stays possible<br>
longterm.<br>
<br>
We need to know who is planning to deploy GlusterFS 3.7 (on modern<br>
distributions) and would require access over the native/fuse (not<br>
NFS/Samba) protocol to the 3.7 servers. If there is very little<br>
interest, and no strong demand, we will likely not provide glusterfs-3.7<br>
packages for these older distributions.<br>
<br>
I would like to remind everyone that when GlusterFS 3.7 gets released,<br>
version 3.4 will become unmaintained and updating to 3.5 or newer should<br>
get planned rather sooner than later. Version 3.5 will be maintained<br>
until 4.0 (or 3.8?) gets released, which is not planned for this year<br>
anymore.<br>
<br>
If you have a strong desire for GlusterFS 3.7 clients on older<br>
distributions, contact us as soon as possible (definitely within the<br>
next two/three weeks) so that we can look into the matter. Please<br>
respond to this list with your explanation and requirements, or if that<br>
is not suitable for whatever reason, email me directly.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Niels<br>
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