Re: [ovirt-devel] el6 future in ovirt-3.6

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 06:02:36PM +0200, Sahina Bose wrote: > On 03/16/2015 03:28 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: >> Current master branch of vdsm (destined for our 3.6 release) uses el7 as >> its main platform. New features are expected to be available only on el7 >> (and modern Fedoras) but not on el6. >> >> On el6, vdsm still builds, runs, and exports clusterLevel <= 3.5, with >> no feature loss relative to 3.5. This has been done per gluster request. >> >> However, maintaining this furhter as high costs: we keep testing el6, we >> need to make sure nothing breaks there, and there's a lot of legacy code >> that we could start deleting. >> >> Sahina, would you explain (again... sorry for not recalling the details) >> why ovirt-3.6's vdsm should keep running on el6? I'd like to see if >> there's a nother means to solve the underlying gluster issue. > This was only because downstream gluster + vdsm would continue to be > supported on RHEL 6. Could you provide more details about your needs? Catering for d/s RHS is very important, but since it's expensive to maintain, I'd like to understand more. Please note again that when installed on el6, ovirt-3.6's vdsm would NOT expose clusterLevel=3.6, so theoretically you can keep ovirt-3.5's vdsm. Do you plan an Engine-side hack in order to use new 3.6 gluster functionality despite clusterLevel<=3.5?

Regards, Dan.